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We offer the experiences in healing touch at our main services and by request. We have a long Anglican tradition of sharing the spirit of God to provide comfort and healing.
In the gospel of Luke we hear Jesus define his ministry as one of healing:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18-19)
Jesus healed lame legs and gave them strength. He reached his hand to blind eyes and gave them sight. He touched weak minds and restored order. He forgave sins and cast out demons setting people free from spiritual, emotional, and physical bondage. Thus, Jesus is healer of both body and soul.
"Jesus saw wholeness as the well-being of the total person: psychological, spiritual, physical. There was no separation of body and soul because Jesus understood them as bound together in a living unity. Jesus understood that whenever our psychological and spiritual life was out of balance, the body responded in the effort to communicate this to us."
--The Reverend Nancy Lane, Ph.D
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