Saved, healed and made whole

For our devotion/discernment time last night our Core Vision team meditated and discussed something from last week's sermon. Pastor Alice said that the word usually translated as "Save" in the New Testament also can mean "heal" and/or "make whole."

Thinking about CGPC, in what way are we called to be part of God's work in saving, healing, and making whole? For example, how do we relate to and minister to hurting and broken people in our congregation and in our community? Is this part of what it means when we say "disciples change the world?"

One thing that occurred to me after the meeting is the way many people from our church have reached across the street to set up a worship/teaching service on Sunday mornings at The Hearth. To me that's an example of a saving, healing, making whole ministry.

John 3:17. "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save (and heal, and make whole) the world."