![]() What we seldom own up to is that even those who profess faith in Jesus as Savior can fall into several kinds of spiritual sickness: When we sing the old spiritual that says, “There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul,” we most times think of this as a one-time cure for original sin. ![]() ![]() But few churches know what to do about spiritual sickness, when neither a hospital visit nor a casserole fills the bill.Īs a result, spiritual sickness too often is allowed to fester, to metastasize and to go untreated.īy “spiritual sickness,” I mean diseases of the heart and spirit that cause emotional and relational trouble for the afflicted and those they afflict. Most churches do a decent job responding to physical illness by visiting in the hospital, bringing casseroles and praying.
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