This week’s services will continue to focus on our needs for hope, wholeness and healing. We return to our sermon series, Questions Jesus Asks. One day in Jerusalem he comes across a group of persons with various impairments – blindness, lameness, and paralysis. Among them is a man who has been ill for 38 years. It is to this man Jesus asked the intriguing question that is the title of this Sunday’s message, “Do you want to be made well?” What kind of a question is that? Who wouldn’t want to be well after a lifetime of illness? Maybe not this guy, as he begins to make all kinds of excuses why he cannot be healed. By the power of Jesus, the man is made well.
Sunday we will explore together healing, health, healthcare, and wellness. What does it mean to be made well? How do we contribute to our health and well-being? Do we need Jesus to heal us in some way? Do we want to be made well?
In an election year when healthcare is a prominent issue, does this story have anything to say to people of faith about health and wellness? Please pray for me as I prepare to lead us in this consideration of Jesus’ seemingly simple “yes-or-no” question, “Do You Want to Be Made Well?” You can find the story in John 5:1-18.
