Chapter 1: How to Die
The best gift you can give to your family and friends is a good death.
To live in the present tense and be at peace in the face of death requires two things:
- To believe that the past is taken care of. We have to come to terms with out humanity.
- To believe that future is take care of. Judgment is a big fear for many. But, Paul says that he is convinced that “neither death nor life nor … will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
A good death is a witness to patience and courage: patience to live with our humanity and courage to face God’s divinity.
Chapter 2: Does God Heal?
"Every healing story in the Bible is there for a reason and is telling us something specific about salvation because in the Bible healing and salvation are more or less the same thing.”
“When we talk about the salvation of the past we call it the forgiveness of sins. When we talk about the salvation of the future we call it eternal life. These are the gifts Jesus brought in his life, death, and resurrection: the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. The restoration of the past and the promise of the future. This is what salvation is.” Then what is healing? “Healing is the third part of salvation, the part sandwiched between forgiveness and eternal life. Salvation means there’s forgiveness, there’s eternal life, and in between, filling up any space that may linger between forgiveness and everlasting life, there’s healing.”
What we think we need is healing, but what we truly need is salvation—forgiveness and eternal life. “So the question, does God heal? can only be asked alongside the question, does God save? And these are the answers. Does God heal me? Sometimes. Does God save me? Always. Always. Always”
Quotes from From: Samuel Wells. “Be Not Afraid.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/_CksC.l