Please join Dr. Will this coming Sunday Jan 19 , 2025 as he preaches on the series titled : “A Journey to Healing ,” part 1. “ If You Choose , You Can Make Me Clean “ Psalm 30; Mark 1:40–45

Health is something of a mystery. Is it the absence of sickness, the absence of physical symptoms, the absence of abnormalities? Or is it a general state of well being which includes mind and spirit as well as body? Were the Hebrews right when they used the same word “Shalom” to express peace, wholeness, well-being, health and salvation?

However you define it, health, healing, wholeness, restoration is very much at the heart of Christian faith and experience and history. In fact, it is the way the story of Jesus is introduced to us by the first account to be written, the Gospel according to Mark. In the first few paragraphs, as soon as Jesus of Nazareth gathers a few followers and begins his public ministry, he heals a man with an unclean spirit—we might say mental illness, a psychosis—then Peter’s mother-in-law who gets up from her sick bed and starts to make dinner, and a man with leprosy.

In part one of this series , Jesus heals the leper and made him whole . He calls him clean and restores to full participation in the human community a man the religious institutions kept out.

Dr. Willy L Mafuta, Ph.D, Th.D

Senior Pastor, 

Hopewell United Methodist Church, Hopewell, NJ 08525

www.hopewellmethodist.org 
Adjunct Professor
World Christianity, Public Religion, Theology and Culture
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ 08542