The Ministry of Healing -- Study Guide

The Touch of Faith (59-72)

Three people who through faith experience the healing touch of Christ. MH-SG 6.2

A. The Woman With an Incurable Disease
1. Why did Christ make His way to where the woman stood? (60)

MH-SG 6.3

2. Why did He ask the question, “Who touched Me”? (60, 61)

MH-SG 6.4

3. How did the woman’s touch differ from that of the rest of the crowd? (62)

MH-SG 6.5

4. “Saving faith is a ___________________, by which those who ___________________ join themselves in ______________________________________.” (62) MH-SG 6.6

5. When working for “victims of evil habits,” instead of calling attention to their “___________________ ______________________________________” we should ” ___________________.” (62) MH-SG 6.7

B. The Centurion’s Servant MH-SG 7.1

1. In what two ways did this centurion differ from most Romans? (63)
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b. MH-SG 7.2

2. While the Jewish leaders were impressed by the fact that the centurion had built a synagogue, what did he say of himself?

MH-SG 7.3

What was his only argument? (65)

MH-SG 7.4

3. “It is ___________________ that connects us with heaven and brings us ___________________ for ___________________ with the ___________________.” (65) MH-SG 7.5

C. The Leper MH-SG 7.6

1. “Of all the diseases known in the East the leprosy was most dreaded.” Why? (67)

MH-SG 7.7

2. The Jews regarded leprosy as “______________________________________.” (67) MH-SG 7.8

3. What restrictions did Jewish society place upon a leper? (67)

MH-SG 7.9

For further study: When the leper saw Christ, he forgot the restrictions, the possibility of spreading disease, the social stigma—all he could see was Jesus. What applications can we make today? (68-71)

MH-SG 7.10