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This blog explores how our medical work can align with God’s purposes. We don’t have to guess how to connect our work to the Kingdom of God. Understanding how healthcare fits into the whole story of the Bible will help us recover a sure foundation. A solid integration of healthcare and mission will help us move ahead with confidence and joy.
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In the past 50 years, community health care has often been done apart from individual medical care. Medical mission efforts have suffered as a result. We need to know why and what to do about it.
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A lesson from the “secret manual”: diversity in medical missions
A Nigerian lab technician serves in Malawi, and an Indian dentist shares Christ’s love in Liberia. Missionaries are increasingly coming from new sending countries in the Global South. As God raises missionaries worldwide, the future of Christian mission will undoubtedly…
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Healthcare and making disciples. Do they go together?
After we heard and responded to God’s good news with faith, we became part of God’s family. We did what most babies do – they grow and learn many new things. That is what being a disciple (learner) is all…
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What does it mean to be human?
We will care for patients better when we treat them as human persons, not objects. Christians have much to contribute to this important dialogue; the gospel calls us to this task.
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What does the church have to do with health? The answer might surprise you.
Following Jesus sends us into the public square, enabling us to love others as God loves us. The church, as God’s people, is called to love others who are suffering. The church is important for true healthcare.
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“A certain weightiness has settled on the hospital.”
Here is part of an email from a missionary doctor and his wife, who serve in a mission hospital in Africa. Healthcare missions can be discouraging, even in a reasonably well-functioning setting. And while we can be discouraged, hope arises…
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Health and the Bible
The Seoul statement from the Fourth Lausanne Congress identifies gaps in fulfilling God’s missionary purpose. One of those gaps, ironically, is the Bible itself. It’s not just that many modern people ignore or even scorn the Bible; the challenge is…
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Pathology, pills and programs alone?
Seoul Statement helps connect healthcare and the gospel, which proclaims and displays Christ
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Where is God in the midst of suffering?
In healthcare, we often encounter patients who do not get better. Despite the best we have to offer, some patients continue to suffer or die. And the question they ask is, “Where is God in the midst of this suffering?”…
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Threats to the future of healthcare mission
What are the dangers ahead? What threatens the future of healthcare mission? This is the fourth part of a SWOT analysis of the health of healthcare mission.
