6.29.2015

"Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles linked preaching and healing together when he taught that gospel teaching has the potential to heal the soul: “This is what Matthew says: ‘And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people’ (Matthew 4:23; emphasis added). “Now, the teaching and the preaching we know and would expect. But we may not be quite as prepared to see healing in the same way. Yet from this earliest beginning, from the first hour, healing is mentioned almost as if it were a synonym for teaching and preaching. At least there is a clear relationship among the three. In fact, the passage that follows says more about the healing than the teaching or the preaching. . . .I believe our teaching can lead to healing of the spiritual kind. . . . As with the Master, wouldn’t it be wonderful to measure the success of our teaching by the healing that takes place in the lives of others?. . .Could we try a little harder to teach so powerfully and so spiritually that we really help that individual who walks alone, who lives alone, who weeps in the dark of the night?” (“Teaching, Preaching, Healing,” Ensign, Jan. 2003, 33–34, 37)." -New Testament Institute Manual, pg. 21

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