Greenville Oaks Church of Christ
Doctors were meant to spend their lives with the sick. Jesus is the doctor. We're sinners healed by Jesus pointing other sick people to Jesus.
Luke 5:27-32 NIV
“They died with no one to look after them. Indeed there were many houses in which all the inhabitants perished through lack of any intention for care. The bodies of the dying were heaped up, one on top of the other…. No fear of God or law of man had a restraining influence.”
- Thucydides
“At the first onset of the disease, they pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treated unburied corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the spread and contagion of the fatal disease.”
- Thucydides
Luke 5:30 NIV
Luke 5:31-32 NIV
“Heedless of the danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need, and ministering to them in Christ. And with them departed this life serenely happy, for they were infected by others with the disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors, and cheerfully accepting their pains.”
- Dionysius
"It's not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."
“I think that when the poor happened to be neglected and overlooked by the priests, the impious Galileans observed this and devoted themselves to benevolence…. The impious Galileans support not only their poor, but ours as well, everyone can see that our people lack aid from us.”
- Julian the Apostate
"It's not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."
Luke 5:31-32 NIV
The only people a doctor can help are the sick who can admit they are sick and need help.