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Mark saw the (healing) miracles of Jesus as displays of his authority. Jesus had the power to make people well, a power he sought to share with his church.
Leonard Griffith points us to James Davidson Ross' moving biography of his wife, Clare From her childhood, she had suffered from severe migraine headaches. The attacks came frequently and were so intense that she could not lift a finger for twenty-four hours. Her vision and speech were also distorted. Doctors offered no hope of a cure. It appeared that the only thing to be done for her was to put her in bed in a dark room and leave her alone to suffer.
The illness continued into Clare's middle-age, when her husband took her to a Chapel of Divine Healing where she prayed and received the laying on of hands. When Clare left the chapel, all signs of the migraine were gone and she never experienced another attack. Her husband repudiated claims that Clare's problem was merely psychosomatic and had been healed by psychological means. He maintained that Clare had taken twenty years of sickness to God and, in faith, had left her sickness with him.
To a degree, every local church is "A Chapel of Divine Healing," carrying on the ministry of a Christ who had the authority to make people well.
- Randolph
Mark saw the (healing) miracles of Jesus as displays of his authority. Jesus had the power to make people well, a power he sought to share with his church.
Leonard Griffith points us to James Davidson Ross' moving biography of his wife, Clare From her childhood, she had suffered from severe migraine headaches. The attacks came frequently and were so intense that she could not lift a finger for twenty-four hours. Her vision and speech were also distorted. Doctors offered no hope of a cure. It appeared that the only thing to be done for her was to put her in bed in a dark room and leave her alone to suffer.
The illness continued into Clare's middle-age, when her husband took her to a Chapel of Divine Healing where she prayed and received the laying on of hands. When Clare left the chapel, all signs of the migraine were gone and she never experienced another attack. Her husband repudiated claims that Clare's problem was merely psychosomatic and had been healed by psychological means. He maintained that Clare had taken twenty years of sickness to God and, in faith, had left her sickness with him.
To a degree, every local church is "A Chapel of Divine Healing," carrying on the ministry of a Christ who had the authority to make people well.
- Randolph
