What does EGW write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Personal ministry for patients"
Answer
Personal ministry for patients involves a holistic approach where physicians and nurses address both physical suffering and spiritual needs. By showing unselfish love and relief of pain, caregivers gain the confidence of the sick, opening doors to share the promises of God and direct minds toward the Great Physician. This sacred work is most effective when personal ministry, prayer, and the study of the Bible are prioritized over mere sermonizing.
The Spiritual Role of Medical Caregivers
The patient feels that his life is in the hands of him who thus ministers to him, and the physician or the nurse can then easily approach him on religious subjects. If the sufferer is under the control of divine influences, how gently can the Christian physician or nurse drop the precious seeds of truth into the garden of the heart. He can bring the promise of God before the soul of the helpless one.
Priority of Personal Ministry
There is need of coming close to the people by personal effort. If less time were given to sermonizing, and more time were spent in personal ministry, greater results would be seen. The poor are to be relieved, the sick cared for, the sorrowing and bereaved comforted, the ignorant instructed, the inexperienced counseled.
The Impact of Missionary Nursing
Missionary nurses who care for the sick and relieve the distress of the poor will find many opportunities to pray with them, to read to them from God's word, and to speak of the Saviour. ... The revelation of unselfish love, manifested in acts of disinterested kindness, will make it easier for these suffering ones to believe in the love of Christ.
Combining Physical and Spiritual Healing
Every physician can and ought to be a Christian, and if so, he bears with him a cure for the soul as well as the body. He is doing the work of an apostle as well as of a physician. How much need there is of the preciousness of pure and undefiled religion, that the spiritual teacher may be administering to the soul necessities while relieving the distress of the body!
Directing Minds to the Great Physician
Never should the physician neglect to direct the minds of his patients to Christ, the Chief Physician. If he has the Saviour abiding in his own heart, his thoughts will ever be directed to the Healer of soul and body. He will lead the minds of sufferers to Him who can restore...
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