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It is a great privilege to be physicians and pastors to the bodies and souls of people. At every phase of life are ways for pastors and doctors to share their faith. There are, however, special opportunities when patients enter life’s final journey and we need to be prepared for...
There is 'increasing emphasis on spirituality as a factor contributing to wellbeing and coping strategies' said Speck and colleagues in a recent BMJ editorial.[1] A team from the Royal Free Hospital, London, has also discovered in a study of acute admissions to that hospital that 71% of people have an...
Many students feel frustrated that there are limitations set on the clinical procedures they can do on the wards before they qualify. When it comes to being a Christian witness, no such boundaries exist: students have at least as much opportunity as anybody else, and usually more time. So take...
As a GP I come into contact with more spiritually needy people during the course of one day in my surgery than many ministers do in a month. As doctors in general, and GPs in particular, we can often build long-term relationships with patients, leading to both great opportunities and...
I have heard it said that there is one thing that Christians and non-Christians have in common: they both hate evangelism. At first it might seem a strange thing to say, but on reflection many of us will agree with this. Have you ever felt uncomfortable about how to witness,...
A medical student thinking through his career options told me recently, 'The overriding need in this world is for people to hear the gospel; therefore the only thing worth doing with my life, if I am able, is to become an ordained minister.' For me this begs important questions, for...
Shortly after the 9/11 attackes on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and Washington's Pentagon, an American publisher released a new Bible that it billed, 'The extreme Word of God for these extreme times.' ExtremeWord is a Bible aimed at teenagers. There's a flag on...
In medicine we use statistics to research the effectiveness of any ‘treatment’. Let me offer a statistic from my experience of evangelism. For every eight patients I invite onto our church Alpha courses, two come and one becomes a Christian. Over the past four years, in excess of 60 patients...
Before I made a commitment to follow Jesus I had many misconceptions about Christianity. However, one thing I was certain about was that becoming a Christian would mean handing over every aspect of my life to the lordship of God. When God finally overcame my resistance and drew me into...
