Called into Healing, Reclaiming our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch [Paperback]

Linda L. Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

A guide to Christian hands-on healing for nurses, ministers, and lay-healers alike. Healers from a Judeo-Christian background have longed for a way to incorporate hands-on healing that flows from their own faith dimension. Called into Healing includes Scriptures, abundant references and resources, and thought-provoking questions. The book provides the Judeo-Christian spiritual foundation for the healing work of Healing Touch. Readers will be inspired to create healing ministries in their personal and professional lives.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Called into Healing is a wonderful book--accessible, practical, and inspirational. Linda Smith grounds her study in Hebrew and Christian scriptures. She traces the history of healing touch from its presence in the early church through its disappearance to its resurgence in our modern era. Smith courageously explores the distortions present in some healing ministries and separates those practices from healing work that is of God. Called into Healing is a book not only for healing touch practitioners but for all people of faith interested in the ministry of healing and its rightful place in the Judeo-Christian tradition." -- Rev. Jane Vennard, M.Div.

"Linda Smith brings to consciousness the importance of service through healing presence and the laying-on of hands. She carefully reviews the history of healing which is rooted in spiritual practices, then proposes a practical plan for Christians to reclaim that spiritual aspect of service. An inspiring focus and work based on real life experience." -- Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon RN, PhD, CHTI, FNP

About the Author

Linda L. Smith,RN, MS, HNC, CHTP, CHTI, founder and director of the Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry Program, has taught over 200 healing workshops. As a nurse-healer, teacher, mentor, and spiritual advisor, she has inspired many with her passion to bring healing back into our Christian churches and ministries. Her background in church ministry gives her an understanding of the need to be scripturally based in Christian healing. For Linda, doing Healing Touch is doing the work of the heart.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: HTSM Press (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967731003
• ISBN-13: 978-0967731001
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic Christian Healing, April 7, 2000

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Kelly Olson (Elkhorn, Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Called into Healing, Reclaiming our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch (Paperback)

How many of us have wondered how to draw on our Judeo-Christian background and our faith, in order to bring comfort to those in need of physical and spiritual healing? I know I did. This book will give you the courage and basic tools to step out and minister.

Linda Smith's book is grounded in scripture, tradition and her own wealth of experience as a healthcare provider and Christian healer. Here healthcare-givers will realize new spiritual dimensions and potential in what they do each day. Parish leaders and laypeople will find that their impulses to extend Jesus' healing ministry into their community are valid and worth heeding. Here are the tools to ground their efforts in Judeo-Christian tradition, unlocking their unrealized potential as healing ministers.

I highly recommend this book. Linda is a marvelous teacher, an effective writer, and a unique spiritual leader in a long-awaited, much-needed renewal of Christian healing ministry.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Called by Called into Healing, March 16, 2000

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dana hardwick, TSSF, MDiv (Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Called into Healing, Reclaiming our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch (Paperback)

As we continue into an increasing awareness of complementary forms of medicine and hands-on healing, Linda Smith's book is a wonderful resource and guide. Very well researched, this work covers the history of hands-on healing from ancient through biblical to modern times and puts us back in realistic touch with our legacy and future possibilities for healing and being healed. It is an excellent guide and study tool for churches seeking to answer the biblical call to healing. For individuals as well as church groups, the section (III) on "Becoming Instruments of Healing" is an inspiring guide to the self-care and spiritual work necessary to become the channel of grace and healing Linda rightly insists we are all called to be. It has quickly become a well-read and valued part of my library.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Called Into Healing, March 11, 2000

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Rev. Susan Harsh Cafferty, M.Div. (Goldston, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Called into Healing, Reclaiming our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch (Paperback)

As we enter the new millenium, Called Into Healing is both a clarion call to the church to reclaim its ministry of healing and a wonderful resource book for those who have already answered that call. A must for the library of all who are involved in healing ministry.