Christians dealing with suffering

Christians dealing with suffering

1. CHARITY

   • Suffering provides opportunities for people to do good
   • promotes human kindness
   • Jesus helped those who suffered e.g lepers
     • Without suffering people couldn't choose to help those less fortunate

2. ACCEPTANCE

   • The example of Jesus on the cross
     • Like Jesus accept their pain and offer it to god.

3. HOPE

   • A belief in the future where the will be no pain
     • heaven
     • centrel message of christianity
       • through the death of Jesus; pain and suffering will be overcome
   • Hope through prayer
     • God provides healing
     • Jesus provided healing to those praying around him
       • Faith healing
         • Spiritually healed

4. FAITH

   • Everything happens as part of God's divine purpouse
     • Story of JOB
       • Job suffered as a test of his faith but God was always looking after him
         • 1/ suffering is a test
         • 2/ suffering is a punishment for sin
           • what Job's friends beleived
         • 3/suffering is part of God's greater plan, which is beyond human understanding
     • everyone has a purpouse