THEOLOGY

THE CO-WORKING OF THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN

Name: Glenn D. Villegas

Subject: Principles of Health/ Health Ministry
Professor: Ptr Damian Del Valle
Date: August 29, 2022
Reading report no. 5
Source: Ellen G. White, Ministry of Healing, (Ellen G. White State, 2007) Chapter 7, pp. 111-124

SUMMARY:
In Chapter 7 “The Co-Working of the Divine and the Human”, Ellen White affirmed in this
chapter that a worker of medical professionals must be a co-laborer with God, both healing the
physical and spiritual sickness, she addresses that God is the source of the Healing of everyone,
and Human must always seek the guidance of the Divine Creator of life.

Reaction:
I agree with her that deliverance from sin and the healing of disease was inseparable. The
same ministry is committed to the Christian physician. He must work alongside Christ to meet his
neighbor’s physical and spiritual needs. A physician must be to the sick a messenger of mercy,
bringing to them a solution for the diseased body and for the sin-sick soul.

Reflection:
I learned that when a physician sees a patient suffering from disease caused by improper
eating and drinking or other wrong habits, physician should give a good counsel about health to the
suffering, we must never shut our mouth in doing that. I also leaned and as a Physician of the
spiritual sickness of my neighbors.

Personal Application Recommendation:

Finally, as a future minister of God’s word, I should gather my soul the light of the word of
God. I should make continual growth in grace. We may not be the Physicians of physical sickness,
but all of us can be a Physician of Spiritual maladies, we should always remember that the Savior is
willing to help all who call upon Him for wisdom and clearness of thought when it comes to
healing of the suffering soul.

Del Valle, D.P. (2022),