Love in Christian Caregiving

Today people are struggling, feeling like they are broken and they need healing. The Old Testament views the person as a whole and the Hebrews word for brokenness meant spiritual, emotional, and physical. Usually, brokenness comes from a broken relationship with God. Healing is possible when the relationship with God can be fully restored or made whole. There are no separate cures for the physical, spiritual, and emotional which is why it is important for Christians who feel called to go out into community rather if it's together or alone to demonstrate what I would call "the trinity of healing." Using the Spiritual, physical, and emotional properties of healing a whole person is very similar to the Christian theology of the Holy Trinity.

Jesus teaches a holistic approach to our relationships with God and others. Based on Jesus' teachings, love is the key ingredient that characterized all interactions. Love is not merely physical or emotional, but it is the embrace of the whole person and how we communicate with one another and within all selves.

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all of your mind." [Matthew 22:37]

Connecting with the community through an engagement of others who are around us is a great example to show the love of God with a whole being. Jesus says that we should love others as we love ourselves. [Matthew 22:39] this means we must follow Jesus' teaching to meet people where there in the church and within the outside walls of the church. If Jesus Christ himself can: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothed the naked, comfort the sick and dying, and visiting the imprisoned [Matthew 25:35-38] then we can too!