{"id":4398,"date":"2008-06-25T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chelondon.wordpress.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-06-25T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:29:41","slug":"neighbourhood-transformation-paralytic-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/06\/25\/neighbourhood-transformation-paralytic-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Transformation: Paralytic Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snap_preview\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>PARALYTIC PRINCIPLES<\/strong><\/span> (Pages 8-9-10)<\/p>\n<p><em>(based on Luke 5, the story of the Paralytic)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friends were interested &amp; cared <\/li>\n<li>Faith &amp; Determination <\/li>\n<li>Problem Solving \/ Creative <\/li>\n<li>Boldness of friends <\/li>\n<li>Friends had trust <\/li>\n<li>Jesus did not respond to physical need first, He responded to Spiritual need first <\/li>\n<li>Forgiveness of sins preceded heealing <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rule breaking&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Caused discomfort for others <\/li>\n<li>Opposing social norms <\/li>\n<li>Friends went to extreme lengths <\/li>\n<li>Passionate friends <\/li>\n<li>visualized healing <\/li>\n<li>Used their talents (strength) <\/li>\n<li>Teamwork <\/li>\n<li>Crowd would not move for them <\/li>\n<li>Multiplication Effort. <\/li>\n<li>Jesus honoured:\n<ul>\n<li>Their faith <\/li>\n<li>Collective faith \/ proxy faith <\/li>\n<li>Action of the faithful can transform (has power) <\/li>\n<li>Final praise was to God (Paralytic went home praising God and the crowed also glorified God <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>WHAT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paralytic had probably tried other methods of healing <\/li>\n<li>felt this was his fate <\/li>\n<li>Someone felt the need for healing (him\/friends?) <\/li>\n<li>Someone had heard of Jesus&#8217;s power <\/li>\n<li>Had to plan for trip\n<ul>\n<li>cot? <\/li>\n<li>food <\/li>\n<li>time <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>WHAT RESOURCES WERE USED?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local Materials <\/li>\n<li>Physical Strength <\/li>\n<li>Time <\/li>\n<li>Creativity <\/li>\n<li>Team <\/li>\n<li>Leadership <\/li>\n<li>Faith <\/li>\n<li>Radicalism \/risk <\/li>\n<li>Defiance of social norms <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>WHAT MUST HAPPEN TO MEET NEEDS?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identification <\/li>\n<li>Recognition <\/li>\n<li>Needs &amp; Resources must come together <\/li>\n<li>Relationship <\/li>\n<li>Trust <\/li>\n<li>Awareness \/ Education <\/li>\n<li>Communication <\/li>\n<li>Acceptance \/ Open to change &amp; Help <\/li>\n<li>Vision <\/li>\n<li>Hope <\/li>\n<li>Open to God&#8217;s leading <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something to keep in mind: Scripture tells us that God is the rewarder of those who seek him.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARALYTIC PRINCIPLES (Pages 8-9-10) (based on Luke 5, the story of the Paralytic) Friends were interested &amp; cared Faith &amp; Determination Problem Solving \/ Creative Boldness of friends Friends had trust Jesus did not respond to physical need first, He responded to Spiritual need first Forgiveness of sins preceded heealing &#8220;Rule breaking&#8221; Caused discomfort for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}