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WHOLENESS
The Journey to Wholeness
We live in a fallen world where brokenness is a feature of all of our lives. No matter how sheltered a life you may have lived, at some time and in some way you will have experienced brokenness, perhaps through a disappointment, a failure, a betrayal, a rejection, an injury, an assault.
Like broken branches, broken people have jagged edges, and those jagged edges are hazardous to other people, especially those who are closest to you. There’s an old saying – you always hurt the one you love.
There is more than a grain of truth in that, and brokenness can be passed on from generation to generation, with wounds that are never healed.
But God does not want us to be broken. He wants us to be whole.
Matt & Janet Hilton
Wholeness Course Leaders
Wholeness Course
The Christian life is a journey into wholeness, and the KAH Wholeness Course seeks to help you along that journey through teaching, discussion, prayer, mentoring, meditation, and worship. It provides a toolbox of resources which you can make use of to help you along the way, but it is YOUR journey with Jesus that is important (Matthew 11:28-30).
This course is like a staff which you can lean on for a season, but only through your relationship with Jesus can you learn how to walk and run (Isaiah 40:31).
The wholeness course poses four questions, and endeavours to help you find the answers to them:
1. Why are things the way they are?
2. How did I get into this?
3. How can I get out of this?
4. What do I need to do to make sure that I never get into this again?
The first is a question about life in general. The world around us is in a mess. Why is this so? How did this come about? Why does God allow this to happen?
For the other three questions, ‘this’ is different for each one of us, but we all face something which keeps us from becoming the glorious, powerful children of God that we ought to be in Christ.
To complete our journey, we need to be clear about our destination. For this course, our working definition of wholeness is:
I am WHOLE whenever
I am free to pursue my God-given destiny
without hindrance from internal impediments
(of spirit, soul, or body)
over which I have no control.
We will always face impediments, but external ones do not affect our wholeness. Circumstances may limit how we serve God. For example, caring for a sick relative may prevent a planned missionary trip. Yet that external barrier may become a means God uses to build faith and patience.
Even physical limitations may not hinder us. Joni Erickson Tada’s spinal injury left her paraplegic, but it became the launching pad of her ministry. Without that accident, would we have even heard of her?
Christ died and rose again to bring us forgiveness, healing, freedom, and wholeness—the essential elements of salvation. It is through God’s grace and faith in Christ and His Word that we enter into the fullness of His salvation.
The Wholeness Course is a travel guide to support you on that journey.