The church and its healing nature

SUMMARY: The Church is not just a physical building but the body of Christ, a spiritual house where believers serve and contribute to edify themselves and others. It is a community of believers in Christ Jesus and the main source of Christian inspiration. The Church's responsibility is to minister inner healing to its members and restore spiritually those affected by destructive feelings and experiences. The Church heals through the gospel of Jesus Christ, which breaks down barriers, applies love, exercises forgiveness, and brings inner peace.

When asked what is the church? pitched to an audience, Christian or not, we would find an enormous variety of responses. For Christians it is not only the sanctuary or temple, but rather what gives it a sacred character as the body of Christ: a spiritual house in which the believer assumes an active role and contributes spiritually to edify it while edifying himself by serving. God according to the gift you have received. We are not simply a community of believers, but a community of believers in Christ Jesus and this is what makes the church a different living organism that transcends its own borders and makes its members special before God. Jesus is the essence of the church and its model of life is the main source of Christian inspiration. The church points beyond itself to Christ, who built it and is the axis on which the life of those who believe in Him turns.

Everything that the church does inwardly and outwardly is based on the activity of God in his son Jesus Christ. The church is a great reservoir of God's grace, and as you and I know, God's grace is inexhaustible. That is why it is the sanitarium par excellence to restore the soul of those who have no hope, satisfy the spiritual hunger and knowledge of those redeemed by Christ and bring the message of salvation to a world torn apart by sin and depravity for the sole purpose to glorify God.