AM Worship-A Church That Heals

This live stream includes our worship service with music that is used under CCLI Live stream license 22169281 and CCLI license 2023223. This sermon is presented by Pastor Steven Larrabee

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What does it truly mean to be a community of healing? In this message drawn from James 5:13-20, we are invited to reimagine what the church can be at its best. James paints a picture not of a perfect community, but of a possible one -- a community where suffering is met with prayer, joy is met with shared praise, sickness is met with spiritual care, and sin is met with grace rather than judgment. The message challenges us to honestly reckon with the gap between that vision and the reality many of us have experienced. Church hurt is real, and dismissing it does no one any good. But the antidote is not to abandon the community -- it is to become the kind of community that makes that hurt unthinkable. We are reminded that healing is not something we passively observe. It is something we actively participate in, because God so often chooses to heal through his people. Whether the wound is physical, spiritual, or relational, the biblical model calls us to show up, pray together, confess honestly, and refuse to let anyone walk alone.