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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network Australia

Plenary

Phil Mills

Christ’s Method of Training Medical Evangelists

Fred Hardinge

Essential Elements of Effective Health Ministry

Christ’s Method of Medical Evangelism- House Calls

Ross Grant

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Christ’s Method of Medical Evangelism- Visual Impairment

I've been praying for proper words to share some thoughts because we're dealing with a subject of such vast importance.

Far-reaching implications because we're going to be looking at the secret that Jesus used to train his own disciples and qualify them to lastingly change the world.

Christ taught them a method that was so effective that money doesn't even assist it in accomplishing its goals.

To prove the point, Jesus twice sent disciples on nationwide tours in face of mortal enemies.

Without money, bodyguards, or supplies, yet these tours generated immense publicity and protection.

Furthermore, the disciples had to turn down substantial financial support which this method generated.

After we look at his unique method, we'll focus on the way Jesus trained his disciples in his powerful method of reaching multitudes.

Christ's method is not a secret, it's known.

But I believe the method is often ignored because the training has been forgotten, overlooked, or neglected.

But this topic is so comprehensive and so important, I want to begin with another word of prayer.

Dear Lord, who's sufficient to present the matchless charms of Christ?

I pray that your Holy Spirit may fall, that just as you spoke to disciples by the Sea of Galilee, so you'll speak to us today, your disciples, by the sea again, that this time together may not be just ordinary time, but that our hearts will burn as you speak with us by the way.

We will know, take knowledge, that there is a Jesus who's living and wants to use us to reach those around us.

The method to reach the multitudes is medical missionary health evangelism, comprehensive.

It's foolish to ignore this method in our outreach to others.

Medical missionary work is the right arm that gives the visible 3 legs which sustain and promote the gospel publicity protection and prosperity.

Without it gospel outreach is weakened, crippled.

Public and Personal evangelism is weakened and crippled as well.

First, it's foolish to ignore medical evangelism in our outreach to others, because medical missionary work brings the gospel publicity.

Lip-to-lip advertising is by far the most effective advertising.

It's the advertising that Madison Avenue, that's, I don't know, do you use that expression here in Australia?

Madison Avenue is the term in America we use for where the big advertisements are made, Madison Avenue.

And they seek to imitate, seek to create lip-to-lip advertising.

Money can buy media advertising, but the most effective advertising has always been free.

The skin cancer and cosmetic dermatology clinic where I trained, Dr.

John Chung instilled in our minds that every patient is our next advertisement.

Years ago, now forgotten almost, Microsoft produced the Zune.

They paid money to college students to have buzz groups and talk about the Zoom.

The iPhone spent very little, but before it was even could be purchased.

How can you get that kind of advertising?

Well, that's what God does in medical missionary work.

That's why it's called the injuring wedge.

Those who are healed spread the news more effectively than television advertisement.

Those friends become interested and tell those friends who become interested.

And it is this type of explosive spread that will finish the work in months.

We found this with the CHIP program in Wichita.

We received excellent television and radio publicity, which cost us very little, and our church in Wichita, Kansas became known because of medical missionary work." This is how comprehensive medical evangelism brought crowds to Jesus.

Luke tells us that after healing a leper, so much the more went there a fame abroad of him and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

This word of mouth publicity was actually too effective.

The crowds became so big that Jesus had to go to places that were more inaccessible as a result.

When we want crowds that convention centers can't hold, we'll start doing comprehensive medical evangelism.

When we want the windows of heaven to be open so much that we don't have room for the blessings, we'll do comprehensive medical evangelism.

Works at all times and in all places, all situations.

It was medical missionary work that opened Syria to the gospel at the highest levels in the time of Elisha.

In the middle of a war between Syria and Israel, at a time when feelings were fever-pitched, when emotions and hatred were at their peak, Elisha's medical missionary work brought peace, it was his entering wedge.

Medical missionary work brought crowds to the apostles, it was their entering wedge.

Luke tells us that believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes, both of men and women, insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing might overshadow some of them.

There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits.

By the space of 2 years, all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks, and God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul.

So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the disease departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them.

Yes, it's foolish to ignore medical missionary work in our outreach to others because comprehensive medical evangelism does bring publicity like no other work.

But second, it's foolish to ignore medical missionary work in our outreach to others because comprehensive medical evangelism provides protection like no other work.

The people protect the medical missionary from their enemies.

Because of Jesus' medical missionary work, the Jewish leaders were afraid to lay a hand on him because of the crowds who would defend Jesus.

The enemies of Christ had to delay murdering him for years.

Christ's trial, all mention of Christ's comprehensive medical evangelism was avoided and excluded because even discussion of it would have prevented his condemnation.

Had Jesus performed a medical missionary healing in King Herod's palace, he would have been released there on the spot.

This protective effect of medical missionary work is true in all times and at all places.

Acts 5.26 says, then went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

Bartholomew Massacre, tens of thousands of Protestant citizens were murdered at the command of King Charles IX in an attempt to exterminate Protestantism in France.

But while the king carried an aquabus and himself shot Protestant subjects who sought his protection by coming to his palace gates, he hid his Protestant physician in his cabinet to preserve his life, locked him in.

Down under when the Adventist message was taken to Australia, ancient Sunday laws were revived.

Some of our members here were placed in stocks.

Some of our members were threatened with fines.

But at Avondale where medical missionary work had been done, the community refused to enforce the laws.

It's foolish to ignore medical missionary work and our outreach to others, because medical missionary work brings publicity and protection like no other work.

But third, it's foolish to ignore medical missionary work in our outreach to others because medical missionary work provides financial and voluntary efforts necessary to support the work of the gospel.

It was medical missionary work that provided for Christ and the disciples' maintenance.

Mark tells us that Peter's mother-in-law was sick.

Jesus came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

Luke tells us that certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went 7 devils, and Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Herod's Steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

True medical missionary work inspires sacrificial service at all times and in all places.

When Paul was a prisoner being transported to Rome and was shipwrecked on the island of Miletus, the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux, to whom Paul entered in and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him.

So when this was done, others also which had diseases in the island came and were healed, who also honored us with many honors.

And when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

Elisha's medical missionary work brought huge donations.

So Hosea went to meet him and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, 40 camels burdened, and came and stood before him and said, thy son, Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, hath sent me to thee saying, shall I recover of this disease?

Now, think of it, Abraham sent only 10 camels for Rebekah, 40 camels for Elisha.

It was medical missionary work alone that's gonna cause the wealth of the Gentiles to flow into the church to support the final gospel outreach.

Yes, it is foolish to ignore medical missionary work in our outreach to others when it is medical missionary work that gives publicity, protection, and prosperity to the work of the gospel.

But it's equally foolish to ignore the gospel in our medical missionary outreach to others.

Medical missionary work, comprehensive medical work, is merely a means, not an end.

Comprehensive medical evangelism brings to view at best only a few brief years of comfort and health, while the gospel brings to view an eternity of comfort and health.

If medical missionary work providing a few years of health is good, the gospel which provides an eternity of health must be infinitely better.

If providing a few years of health is important, the gospel with its eternity of health and happiness must be infinitely more important.

It's foolish to share the good while we fail to share the infinitely better.

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Christ’s Method of Training Medical Evangelists

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