Healing

Scripture Reading: Luke 8:40-48

Opening Question:

What part of this passage stands out most to you?

Core Question 1:

What problems has the woman been suffering from? What healing does Jesus offer her?

Core Question 2:

Why do you think the woman touched Jesus secretly? Why do you think Jesus forces the personal encounter with the woman, rather than allowing her to stay anonymous?

Core Question 3:

What does psychologist David Banner, author of Surrendering to Love, believe about vulnerability and healing?

The single most important thing I have learned in over thirty years of study of how love produces healing is that love is transformational only when it is received in vulnerability… It is not the fact of being loved unconditionally that is life-changing.  It is the risky experience of…[d]aring to accept myself and receive love for who I am…

Do you agree? When have you experienced unconditional love? Did it require you to be vulnerable to the other person?

Concluding Question:

How do we, as Jesus’s apprentices, receive God’s unconditional love? How does this require us to be vulnerable?