Healed or Cured ?

Series Overview

What will this series be about: How to understand healing/curing in Jesus day compared to our day. To teach folks to read the healing/curing miracles of Jesus in cultural context.

What Felt need am I targeting? 

What happens when I pray to have a disease or ailment taken away and it is not. Is that a non answer, or has God answered me in a way I didn't expect? There is a difference between healing and curing. he can be cured and not healed and vice versa, the best is both, but God can grant either.

What is the primary scripture or book for the series?

--perfect illustration of the differences between how we understand healing and curing versus Jesus' culture.

What is the “big idea” of this series?

Our well being concerns the whole person.

How many weeks and what are the scriptures?

see below

What books, articles, and/or pop cultural references speak to this subject?

John J. Pilch "healing in the New Testament

What is the name of the series?

Healed or Cured?

What are the creative elements?

Artwork?

Drama?

Slide?

Music?

How will the series be promoted with deadlines.

Flyer

Postcard

Social Media

Banners

Website

Video

Promotion Schedule

4 Weeks Out

3 Weeks Out

2 Weeks Out

1 Week Out

The Week of

5.6 Healed or Cured?

Mark 2:1-12

Big Idea: The way we understand healing is very different then the way people in Jesus time understood it and it has nothing to do with science, but with our cultural value structure

Outline

Introduction

How we understand healing today versus people in Jesus day

What a westerner might interpret as a loss of function an ancient reader would see as a dis-valued state of being, lameness for example

My experience as a hospice chaplain

Exegesis

Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juN1mgR3VBQ (Ben casey)

Music

Other

5.13 Moonstruck

See Plutarch on moon/moonstruck

Greek word for epileptic is moonstruck

must be careful not to westernize things

Big Idea: How superstition can effect our faith: we translate moonstruck here as epileptic

Outline

Media

Music

Other

5.20 Pentecost Walking and Leaping

Big Idea: This is direct evidence of supernatural healing. A healing of wholeness so healing and curing occured here.

Outline

Media

Music

Other

5.27 Memorial Day Weekend Elder Inside and Out

The Message

Big Idea: The church's role in healing/curing. Oil. prayer, and hands.

Outline

Media

Music

Other

General Notes

Pilch (Kindle)

Mediterranean/Hellenistic world View/Western

Being (spontaneity) vs Doing goal oriented

Collateral relationships (group goals preferable to individual goals, cooperation rather than competition)--individual

Present (survival is day to day)--future

subjugation to nature (nothing they could do about it, thus Jesus miracles really stood out. He remonstrated power over nature)--master of nature

mixture of good and evil--good

This produces an understanding of health that has to do with the whole person

For us health has to do with being able to perform the functions that help to maintain the individual

Better; health as a state of well being rather than the restoration of individual activity or performance

This means that the sickness problems presented to Jesus are concerned with a state of being rather than an inability to function.--values make the difference

What a westerner might interpret as a loss of function an ancient reader would see as a dis-valued state of being, lameness for example

Human ills in the synoptics 3 symbolic body zones

Heart-eyes (emotion fused thought)

Mouth-ears (self expressive speech)

hands-feet (purposeful activity)

Healing in cultural context

We focus therapies on causes or cure (control over nature)

cure: taking effective control of a disordered biological and/or psychological process usually identified as a disease

non scientific cultures therapies are centered at alleviating or managing symptoms, this entails creating new meaning for the sufferer; this is healing

healing: a process by which (a) disease and certain other worrisome circumstances are made into an illness (a cultural construction and therefore meaningful) and (b) the sufferer gains a degree of satisfaction through the reduction, or even elimination of the psychological, sensory, and experiential oppressive engendered by his/her medical circumstances.