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Hard question November 24, 2014 · 29:31 · 23 min

'What did Jesus mean?' — your faith has healed you

  • What did Jesus mean by 'your faith has healed you' (Greek sozo), and how should Christ followers live those passages out today?

Dave Herrick, named on-air, leads the hard-question segment: Jesus repeatedly said 'your faith has healed you' (Greek sozo, also rendered 'saved you') — to the sinful woman who anointed his feet, the woman healed of bleeding who touched his garment, one of ten lepers who returned, and a blind man — so why is faith healing treated as fringe in mainstream churches? The hosts discuss self-styled healers who blamed a child with cerebral palsy for lacking faith, the apostles' violent deaths, the pool of Bethesda where not everyone was healed, and whether praying in absolute faith is honest when God may say no. A shared video of a Syrian Christian family preparing their children to die for their faith reframes faith as seeking God's perspective rather than demanding his compliance.

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