Raising the healing potential of WBC
Aug 2, 2026 · 42 min · 11 segments
Aug 2, 2026 · 42 min · 11 segments
One of our values at Woodvale Baptist Church, uh, is the following one.
We've called it holistic care and, uh, this has been a value that we adopted as a church around about eight or nine years ago and it simply reads in this way, am I caring for myself spiritually, emotionally, physically, and mentally? And then we ask the question, am I extending that same care to others? So the reason behind the questions is there's our value, holistic care, but we ask these questions first of ourselves personally, are we caring for ourselves? Am I caring for myself in those areas? And am I extending that same care to others? Uh, sometimes some people look at that and they say, "Oh, holistic care" and it's just a buzzword and some people might even think that the church has gone New Age because they work- use this word holistic.
I hope you will see that the Bible addresses the spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental needs of people.
You see that all the way through scripture.
And so what I want to do this morning as we draw the series to a close, I've called the message Raising the Healing Potential of Woodvale Baptist Church.
And so as we've worked our way through the series and the overarching title, I borrowed that from, uh, Doc Gibson, my principal at college because he'd written an article on it and, uh, that has been quite a helpful article in my own thinking on this topic over the last few weeks particularly.
But what I want to do is take that t- uh, take that title and apply it to us specifically as a church and I want to ask the question, can we do this? Can we as a church raise our healing potential? And a follow-on question from that is should we? Should we do that? Should, should that be something that we aspire to? Should that be something that we attempt or do we just simply leave it all up to God? What I want you to see this morning as we look at this, uh, passage in James chapter five, uh, a well-known passage of scripture, uh, that has been used and applied by churches for centuries.
What I want you to see is that healing, this whole idea of healing, and I'm not just talking about physical healing and you'll ... uh, hopefully you've understood that over the course of the messages that we've been looking at.
But particularly this morning when I'm talking about healing, I'm not just talking about physical healing because, uh, healing is grounded in the context of the work of salvation that Jesus has done and you will see that from this scripture this morning.
But you will also see that this whole idea of healing and bringing healing to our world is grounded in the local church.
Over and over again when the church is mentioned in the New Testament, I think it's somewhere between 80 to 90% of the time it's referring to a local church.
So what does a local church look like? Let, let's talk for a few moments about healing in the local church.
One of our values at Woodvale Baptist Church, uh, is the following one.
We've called it holistic care and, uh, this has been a value that we adopted as a church around about eight or nine years ago and it simply reads in this way, am I caring for myself spiritually, emotionally, physically, and mentally? And then we ask the question, am I extending that same care to others? So the reason behind the questions is there's our value, holistic care, but we ask these questions first of ourselves personally, are we caring for ourselves? Am I caring for myself in those areas? And am I extending that same care to others? Uh, sometimes some people look at that and they say, "Oh, holistic care" and it's just a buzzword and some people might even think that the church has gone New Age because they work- use this word holistic.
I hope you will see that the Bible addresses the spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental needs of people.
You see that all the way through scripture.
And so what I want to do this morning as we draw the series to a close, I've called the message Raising the Healing Potential of Woodvale Baptist Church.
And so as we've worked our way through the series and the overarching title, I borrowed that from, uh, Doc Gibson, my principal at college because he'd written an article on it and, uh, that has been quite a helpful article in my own thinking on this topic over the last few weeks particularly.
But what I want to do is take that t- uh, take that title and apply it to us specifically as a church and I want to ask the question, can we do this? Can we as a church raise our healing potential? And a follow-on question from that is should we? Should we do that? Should, should that be something that we aspire to? Should that be something that we attempt or do we just simply leave it all up to God? What I want you to see this morning as we look at this, uh, passage in James chapter five, uh, a well-known passage of scripture, uh, that has been used and applied by churches for centuries.
What I want you to see is that healing, this whole idea of healing, and I'm not just talking about physical healing and you'll ... uh, hopefully you've understood that over the course of the messages that we've been looking at.
But particularly this morning when I'm talking about healing, I'm not just talking about physical healing because, uh, healing is grounded in the context of the work of salvation that Jesus has done and you will see that from this scripture this morning.
But you will also see that this whole idea of healing and bringing healing to our world is grounded in the local church.
Over and over again when the church is mentioned in the New Testament, I think it's somewhere between 80 to 90% of the time it's referring to a local church.
So what does a local church look like? Let, let's talk for a few moments about healing in the local church.
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