Spiritual gifts in healthcare

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Spiritual gifts in healthcare

• What are my gifts and
• how can they be used optimally
• in the modern healthcare setting?

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spiritual gifts in healthcare

• Vision / motivation
• Up to date evaluation
• Increased expertise

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Why are the spiritual gifts important in
healthcare?

• Sick and dying people need every possible
  blessing they can receive from the Lord
• Healthcare workers need Gods unusual enabling as
  they minister to the deepest needs of suffering
  human beings.
• Our healthcare systems need gifted leaders and
  workers who fulfil their God-given destiny as
  they collaborate to solve the serious and complex
  problems we are facing

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Why use my gifts in the workplace?

• Body of Christ ministry, 1Cor.12
• Stewardship of talents/gifts, Matt.25

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Which gifts are particularly important in
healthcare?
all the gifts are needed

• Administration / management
• Leadership
• Mercy / compassion
• Counselling
• Healings
• Helps / service
• Hospitality

1. Intercession
2. Wisdom
3. Knowledge
4. Teaching
5. Voluntary poverty
6. Discernment of spirits
7. Exorcism

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Spiritual gifts

• Permanent unusual enabling from God, Rom1129
• 20 listed in Rom12 6-8 1Cor12 Eph4 1Cor77
  1Cor133 Eph37 Rom826, 27
• Ministry continued exercise of one or more
  gifts
• Multiple giving God ? me ? God Me ?? others
• All people have talents only Christians have
  gifts
• Talents can be transformed by related gifts
• Gifts do not replace basic Christian
  responsibilities

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1 Peter 4 10, 11 - KJV

• As every man hath received the gift, even so
  minister the same one to another, as good
  stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man
  speak, let him speak as the oracles of God if
  any man minister, let him do it as of the ability
  which God giveth that God in all things may be
  glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise
  and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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Principles from 1 Peter 4 10, 11

1. Every Christian has received one gift
2. We are stewards of these gifts
3. Minister to one another in using the gifts
4. Reciprocity in ministry
5. Ministry reveals the manifold grace of God
6. the gifts complement one another
7. the combined impact is required
8. Jesus Christ to be central
9. The praise is His ? He is to get the glory
10. The dominion is His ? His kingdom should be
    advancing through our gift-ministry

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Up to date evaluation of gifts

1. Complete the questionnaire
2. Group work About your manifest gifts
3. How do you feel about it?
4. How effective are you in using it in the church,
   at home, at work?
5. What would you like to learn about using your
   gifts in the workplace?

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Principles from Ephesians 5 15-21

1. Wisdom and holiness required, v 15
2. Good time management, v 16
3. Knowing Gods will, v 17
4. Overflow-fullness of Holy Spirit, v 18
5. Overflow-ministry, v 19
6. Overflow-gratitude, v 20
7. Right relationships, v 21

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Exercise in using your gifts - 1

• Go into same group as before
• Question What do you want to learn about the use
  of your gifts in the workplace?
• Minister to one another in this regard, using
  your gifts
• Plenary feedback about the ministry time

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Some practical tips

• Give God the glory for all healing
• Know your place and take responsibility
• Childlike trust in the guidance of Father
• Use kairos moments for ministry
• Avoid dualistic polarization
• Medicine versus prayer healing
• Physical versus spiritual healing
• Beware of gift-based tunnel vision

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Gift Administration / Management

• Kybernesis person in charge of the ship on
  behalf of its owner
• Managers ought to bring order and structure for
  optimal effectiveness and efficiency while
  minimizing uncertainty
• Danger Unhealthy controlling Asking God to
  bless my beautiful plans management as master
  and not as tool

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Gift Leadership

• Prohistamenos leading by going in front of
• Inspiring leadership at all levels is vital in
  times of complex and frequent change in
  healthcare
• Danger Going too fast / slow pride stubbornness

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Gift Mercy / Compassion

• Diakononos to run on errands on behalf of
  another, attending to their needs
• Christian mercy and compassion is the heart of
  true health-care
• Danger Help without heart underestimating the
  importance of own walk with the Lord
  over-reliance on methods and means

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Gift Counselling

• Parakaleo ? called to draw alongside and to
  comfort
• Not just confined to the hospital chaplain,
  psychologist or psychiatrist
• Danger Glib application of universal
  counselling remedies mechanical insensitivity

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Gift Healings

• Charismata iamaton restoring from a state of
  weakness / brokenness
• Pray for shalom according to the will of God
• Danger Presumptuousness dualism

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Gift Helps / service

• Antilepsis bringing relief by taking hold of and
  supporting
• Prudent stewardship of available strength to
  serve
• Danger Unbelief in Gods ability to use me
  over-dependent on praise of others helping in
  order to get love

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Gift Hospitality

• Philoxenos fond of guests / strangers /
  foreigners making room for g / s / f also in our
  hearts
• Healthcare ought to be a people-friendly place
  the hospital should be a home for the sick and
  dying, not an institution or hotel
• Danger Only helping if a reward is anticipated

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Gift Intercession

• Euchomai petitioning God with the blessings we
  want to see others receive
• Essential to build prayer altars in every
  healthcare location
• Intercessory teams in local churches to support
  healthcare workers
• Danger spiritual shamanism charismagic practices

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Gift Wisdom

• Sofia to see Gods will clearly in a given
  situation
• Intelligence is a poor substitute for wisdom
• Danger I am always right becoming unteachable

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Gift Knowledge

• Ginosko to know Gods truth (special, incarnate
  and general revelation)
• We need to be eager knowledge-seekers and
  distributors
• Danger hoarding facts leads to pride having
  information about is not the same as knowing
  personally

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Gift Teaching

• Didaskalos the one causing others to accept
  Gods truth and to put it into practice
• Biblical Christian healthcare education required!
• Danger over-analytical over-emphasis on teacher
  mode undermines reciprocity in relationships

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Gift Voluntary poverty

• Ptochos choosing to crouch in a place of need in
  order to help another who is in even greater need
• If we have a heart for the poor, we will not only
  give out of our surplus or our used stuff
• Danger hypocrisy pride

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Gift Discernment of spirits

• Diakriseis pneumaton to thoroughly distinguish
  between good and evil spirits
• Important in psychiatry, dementia, educational
  environment, political arena
• Danger Judgmentalism

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Gift Exorcism

• Ekballei daimonia to throw out demons
• Not for lone rangers
• Becoming increasingly important as pluralism and
  the new spiritualism advances
• Danger extremes deception

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Exercise in using your gifts - 2

• Into groups once again please
• Question What is your most difficult problem at
  the workplace?
• Minister to one another in this regard, using
  your gifts
• Plenary feedback time

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Evaluation of the contents

• On a scale of zero to five
• How much more are you now motivated to use your
  gifts at work?
• How much more clarity do you have about your
  gifts?
• How much expertise did you gain in using your
  gifts?