Miracles 21 The Woman Bent Double

Luke 13:10-17 The Woman Bent Double

This was the text for Amy's message last night at the Georgetown Service of Wholeness and Healing [click here to listen to one held in 2011].   While Amy was reading the text (which is different from the NIV used in study guide) she read: 

 The synagogue leader, incensed that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded, “There are six days during which work is permitted. Come and be cured on those days, not on the Sabbath day.”

What I heard her read is that Jesus healed on the Sabbath, but the synagogue leader could only cure on the other six days.  I always find it interesting that it was not doubted that someone could be healed, only the rightfulness of doing it on the Sabbath.  

Last night as part of Communion, we offered each person the chance to be anointed with oil, a station next to where the wine was offered.  Generally anointing is offered in a back room, or in the foyer, and maybe one person will show up.  But last night, everyone who came for communion asked to be anointed, and to be healed from some sort of brokenness.  

I wonder if anointing has become our "healing on the Sabbath," something that is only done in the back room, away from other people to protect their privacy.  And we wonder why it does not always happen?  When Jesus healed, it was for the glory of God, not for the person receiving it.