If I mention the word “healing” here in church, what comes to your mind? Oral Roberts? Professional healers on TV? The Christian Scientists? A place in France where lame people seem to have been made well? Jesus giving sight to a blind man? Perhaps none of the above.

If you are at the grocery store and you glance at one of those tabloid magazines and see the word “healing” on the front page, what do you think of? New-fangled diets? Miracle drugs? Perhaps.

We tend to compartmentalize healing. If something is wrong with your body, you go to a physician. If something is wrong with your spirit, you go to a clergy person. If something is wrong with your mind, you go to a psychiatrist. In one sense, that is entirely proper. But the Bible does not divide healing into those neat sections. Indeed…