“Sozo” Discussion Guide
Message By: Dan Davis
Delivered on: 7/25/2010
Guide by: Loren Collins
CONNECT:
1) If you were there on Sunday morning or Evening, simply discuss the experience of communal prayer at the end of the message and how you responded/were affected.
2) What does “Salvation” mean to you?
3) Do you feel that God has healed you of anything in the past? Was it physical, mental, emotional, circumstantial?
DISCUSS:
Dan seemed to have three central ideas in his message that are challenging; Discuss each one of these ideas as a group; are they reflected in the average Christian’s life, what about yours?
4) “Salvation is holistic, more than securing a seat in Heaven,”
5) “Healing is holistic, not just physical”
6) “Community, in connection to both salvation and healing, is assumed to be deeply central”
PROVOKE CHANGE:
This week’s challenge is taken directly from Dan’s notes!
One thing we’ve learned is that change cannot be impersonal. It must be communal. This passage seems to be getting at this too…
· Confess to each other
· Pray for each other
· Live together whole & healed
Change assumes & necessitates community.
NOTES:
James 5:13-16
13-15Are you in trouble? Pray.
Do you feel great? Sing.
Are you sick? Call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master. Believing-prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you’ve sinned, you’ll be forgiven—healed inside and out.
16Make this your common practice: Confess your faults to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed.
“sick” : astheneo- to be weak, without strength, powerless, weak in means, needy, poor, sick
“heal” : sozo- to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger, to save a suffering one from perishing (i.e. one suffering from disease), to make well, heal, restore to health. Be whole. Make whole.
Matt. 8:25 And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing!”
Matt. 9:21-22 for she was saying to herself, “IfI only touch His garment, I will get well.” But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.”
Matt. 14:30 But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, rescue me!”
John 11:12 The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
John 12:27 “Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, get me out of this?
James 2:14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
