   It was Gandhi who said that ‘My message is my life.’ The Great Physician, Jesus, was no different. He did not only provide healing, He was a Healer. In this 11th hour, we need more than physicians, we need healers.    

AMEN 2016-Radical Practice: Healing in the 11th Hour

<div> <div> <div> <p>It was Gandhi who said that ‘My message is my life.’ The Great Physician, Jesus, was no different. He did not only provide healing, He was a Healer. In this 11th hour, we need more than physicians, we need healers. </p> </div> </div> </div>

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Plenary

Edwin Nebblett

Radical: Burning, Balance or Flame Out?

Todd Guthrie

Free Radicals in Practice: The Good, the Bad, and Oxidative Stress

John Torquato

Radical Practice

John Howe

Radical Resolution: The Healing Faith and Rest of Christ

Bee See

Revolutionary

Daryl Cheng

Of Opiates and Stimulants

Sebastien Braxton

Doctor Who?

Mark Finley

Busyness, Spirituality, and Vision

Medical and Dental Student Testimonies

Mark Ranzinger

Radicalized

While I bring you greetings from Fayetteville, North Carolina, where I have the privilege of being the husband of 1 wife and the chief of a tribe of Braxtons.

My wife sends her greetings and her prayers with you.

It is a privilege to be able to speak to you guys here at the AMEN Conference.

You know, I wondered when Carlos first talked to me about it and said, hey, would you be open to that?

I definitely affirmed my burden for health, which I will get into shortly.

But also I considered it a very unique privilege because I believed that there's something very unique about this particular conference because of how central and powerful the health message is and has been in so many people's lives.

But also because there's a huge context to this conference that I think is important to define.

And so allow me to share a few things to give context to this particular divine hour.

Before we do that I would like to pray and invite the Holy Spirit to be with us.

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, we are so grateful that we can come into this place and worship in peace.

We are also grateful that we have the privilege to worship together and to hear from God.

We did not come here to hear the words of men.

Lord, there are many medical conferences that happen all over the world, but there is none like this 1.

And we pray that you would prove that by the experience that we have this morning.

Father, we thank you that God is willing to use broken people like us.

We pray that you would speak through this man who is but dust in your sight.

And that you would not only speak through me, but that you would speak to me, that we all may be changed, that Jesus may be seen, and that we and this world may be more prepared to meet the Lord because of the time that we have spent here this morning.

We thank you for hearing and answering this prayer and we offer it up from our hearts in Jesus' name.

There are several contexts to my remarks this morning.

Some people may wonder, as a good friend of mine said on the way in this morning, she said, Sebastian, it's so funny that they asked you to speak.

Then I remembered when Amen was first being introduced to GYC in Chattanooga that Mike Orlich and Pastor Finley walked on the stage and Mike Orlich said, So Elder Finley, you know, people are probably wondering, what does Elder Finley know about the medical world and why does he have an interest in medicine?

And Elder Finley said, I'm a doctor of the soul, brother.

Neblett, that I serve as the CEO of the New Life Challenge where we're trying to bring the health message into the hands of millennials to leverage technology and mobile phones and tablets so that we can make our message ubiquitous as are the devices that people use and to be able to leverage that to encourage every church to be involved in health ministry.

The third context to my remarks is health is very personal to me.

The health message was something that impacted my life even before I had a Bible study.

People don't know that when I was born, my mother almost died, giving birth to me.

Thankfully, because of medicine, they realized that there was a problem with my mother's blood pressure being through the roof.

You guys probably know the medical term for it.

All I know is it was either cesarean or you are born as a man without a mom.

So they took me out early in order to save my mother, which I'm very grateful for that.

Medicine also saved my life, but also began to show its limitations.

When I was 15 years old, living in Stone Mountain, Georgia, As I was sleeping 1 night, I woke up in the middle of the night unable to breathe.

My throat had closed and my body began to regurgitate whatever was in my stomach.

After I would regurgitate and try to breathe, my throat would close again.

Eventually I threw myself onto the landing outside my room to try to make some noise to wake up my family.

Eventually my father got up, who is a doctor, and pretty much watched me go through the experience.

But we're going to give you some inhalers.

So I used to take 2 inhalers 3 times a day until I came to the health message.

And when I decided to give up meat and dairy to focus a lot more, I mean I was a Marine so I wasn't a completely unhealthy person, but I definitely needed a bigger picture of what health looked like.

And as a result, I eventually got off of inhalers and could run around and do whatever I like completely freely.

And so I also recognize that I owe a great debt to physicians even for my own personal life.

1 of the final contexts I want to share is recent research that has come out And this is what drives me even in what I'm doing with the New Life Challenge.

It's 1 thing to travel the world and speak to people about God and about their spiritual health and how they are doing in terms of their emotional life, in terms of their spiritual connection with God.

It's another thing to sit and recognize that as a minister, when people come to me with a physical ailment, I'm limited simply by prayer, or simply by what I read in councils on diets and foods, or what I know about health from my own life and experience.

But this becomes a problem, because when you recognize that almost 70% of adults in America are obese, When you think about the fact that heart disease is still the leading cause of death for men and women, 88 million people are pre-diabetic.

And we know the number is growing, not reducing.

To think about hypertension, 1 in 3 people have high blood pressure.

You know, it's easy to use these numbers because they don't really, they don't really impact us as numbers.

It's when you have to go to the bedside because you're the preacher.

And you have to sit there and watch this person's loved 1 wither away.

And they're wondering why their dad, when this person smokes and lives to 100, creates a lot of theological problems.

1 of the other things that I want to add, David Williams, who's a professor at Harvard, worked with him from University of Michigan as well as in Boston.

He came out with a recent research study that discrimination can make you sick.

Growing up in inner city Chicago, I know what it's like to be racially profiled.

Know what it's like for people to make it very clear that Sebastian can play basketball with you and Sebastian can be your friend, but, you know, marriage and all those things are out of the question.

And they made it abundantly clear to me as well.

Steven and Katie Waterbrook are not with us because of health.

It's no longer just affecting people who don't follow our diet.

It's affecting people who do follow our diet.

In these kinds of situations, it raises the question that you place in your theme.

That we said radical practice, and the next word is healing in the 11th hour.

I can promise you this morning that Stephen and Katie are not looking for treatment.

Any 1 of us who has a family member that is suffering some physical ailment, The driving desire behind anything that we do as medical professionals Has nothing to do with a practice Has everything to do with the concept of healing?

We are in the business of dealing with broken people We exist because the world is broken.

This conference is a constant reminder of how broken the world is, that you can graduate hundreds and hundreds of people from medical school and nursing school and nurse practitionerships and dieticians and never ever run out.

You know how many times I talk to people and say, why did you go into nursing?

Because perhaps the system didn't set it up so that that would never need to be the case.

In this very room, we have a very unique opportunity.

I don't consider this just another medical event.

I consider this event as the creme de la creme of the medical events that happens.

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