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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“For the Gentiles, hearing from our mouth the words of God, are impressed by their beauty and greatness: then, learning that our works are not worthy of the things we say, they turn to railing, saying that it is some deceitful tale. For when they hear from us that God says: ‘No thanks will be due to you, if ye love only those who love you; but thanks will be due to you, if ye love your enemies and those that hate you’—when they hear this, they are impressed by the overplus of goodness: but when they see that we do not love, not only those who hate us, but even those who love us, they laugh at us, and the Name is blasphemed.”
~ The 2nd Epistle of Clement (140-160AD
This week's Psalm is Psalm 30 'Joy Comes With The Morning'

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Spiritual Wellbeing

History records many astounding miracles of physical healing, but even the most dramatic healing – that of being raised from the dead – is, of course, only partial, for the one raised must die again. Restoration to physical life does not, and cannot, change the body from a corrupted to an incorruptible state. Only resurrection can achieve that. The same point may be made in relation to other terms denoting absolute or perfect health states. Wellbeing is one such term. Relative wellbeing, like relative health, is achievable in our present corrupted world. But perfect wellbeing, in the sense of being fully well, must await the transformation of the resurrection. The oft quoted World Health Organisation definition of health reflects such an absolute view, describing health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ (WHO, 1946). Apart from this being an unobtainable state given the human condition, this definition represents an understanding of personhood that is limited to mind, body, and social relations. The main problem with this definition is that it lacks any reference to the most fundamental healing need of all, the spiritual, and if you remove the spiritual from your view of healing, you will never attain to complete healing! In such a definition there is no recognition that we are spiritual beings. A more accurate definition of health might sound something like this: “Health is a state of complete physical, psychological, spiritual and relational well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” When we choose Jesus, we take the greatest step of spiritual healing possible.

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