James 5:13-20

Round peg in square hole?

Forced to look at the passage through a new lens...

Is anyone cheerful? Praise

Easter Lessons from the End of James

Jesus is the Crucified King

Jesus is the Crucified King

Fruit #2: The

Unity of Suffering and Praise

Unity of Suffering and Praise

Is anyone sick? Call elder, pray, anoint with oil in the name!

Embrace all kinds of emotion. Suffering? Joyful? Sick? We’ll take you all!

Easter is the place that caps Good Friday with Easter

Good Friday, we talked about Elijah

Suffering: Pray: Theme of these verses

Cheerful: Praise!

Sick?

Jesus is the Physician King

Relativism vs. Resurrection

Psychosomatic healing

Psychosomatic healing

Alcohol addiction or other substances that causes a domino effect.

Sinful behaviors

Emotional sickness caused by bitterness or envy

Jesus Desires an active Relationship with You

Prayer and evangelism

People will wonder… How do we bring them back?

Out of all the things James shares with us, he concludes his letter writing about bringing back people from sin.

Out of all the things James shares with us, he concludes his letter writing about bringing back people from sin.

No “See you later”. Action!

Call to a relationship

Billy Graham was really good at this…

Round peg in square hole.

Jesus is calling…

What’s the oil about?

Medicinal?

Church understood it for centuries as being sacramental

Symbolic: Healed by ‘Prayer of Faith’ and not by the anointing.

Symbolism of being set apart.

It’s important and significant, but unclear.

What is more important is the issue of prayer.

Paul’s own prayer for healing was not granted ().

What saves? Prayers of Faith- not the oil. The oil is merely a symbolic gesture of singling out the person.

Vs. 16: James is encouraging people to pray confess the types of sins that may contribute to the sin, or hinder the healing.

Confess your sins together: Methodist movement in 17th century: Be open and vulnerable.

New Testament Church:

Role of elders is important: Shepherds of healing

Confession to one another

Verse 16: Whole Church is involved in ministry of healing

Square pegs belong!

Cant make it in.

With a proper diet, moderate and consistent exercise, and the development of a healthy mind-set, I should be able to fit in fine.