{"id":673,"date":"2012-04-27T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/gc2012\/?p=673"},"modified":"2012-04-27T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:16:37","slug":"hoshibata-offers-healing-message-to-gc2012-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/hoshibata-offers-healing-message-to-gc2012-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoshibata Offers Healing Message to #gc2012 – VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Robert T. Hoshibata preaches during worship at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla. A UMNS photo by Mike DuBose.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Greg Nelson<\/strong>,\u00a0Director of Communications for the Oregon Idaho Annual Conference<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In his sermon to the General Conference on Thursday, April 16, Bishop Robert T. Hoshibata asked the question, \u201cCan this love heal our United Methodist Church?\u201d The sermon, based on Mark 3:7-12 explored the healing love of Christ. The exploration looked at how, while Christ was known for his physical healing, it is the ability of Christ\u2019s love to heal a person\u2019s soul that can have a profound impact on individuals and the church as a whole. LISTEN to the Audio.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hoshibata\u2019s sermon pointed out a parallel for The United Methodist Church\u2019s founder, John Wesley. Wesley was deeply concerned with physical health; even to the point of writing the text Primitive Physick<\/em>, or An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases<\/em> in 1747. But Hoshibata identifies that Wesley cared deeply about the health of a person\u2019s soul and encouraged the question \u201cHow is it with your soul?\u201d at his class meetings.<\/p>\n

For Hoshibata, this healing of soul, by Christ\u2019s love, can affect our denomination. He identifies that amidst the challenges and conflicts in the church, Christ\u2019s healing love is available as a privilege to all.<\/p>\n

Hoshibata shared that for him a key point of the sermon was that, \u201cWE need to determine to be part of God\u2019s healing love.\u201d In the sermon text he makes this point saying, \u201cWe may say that we are people of deep faith, but if we do not live out that faith by reaching out to everyone in Christ\u2019s love, then we are, in the words of I Corinthians, nothing but a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoshibata concluded the sermon by challenging the delegates and visitors to, \u201cImagine a church for all God\u2019s children, intentionally opening its heart, mind, and doors to everyone \u2013 everyone! Where disciples of Jesus Christ proclaim and practice acceptance of all \u2013 of all others \u2013 without regard for who they are, what they look like, or whom they love. That\u2019s a church\u2026 That\u2019s a church\u2026 That\u2019s a church that is healed of mistrust and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

After expanding on a vision of a church that reaches out to communities, the hungry, the homeless, and the marginalized, he concluded that the church he sees is a church, \u201cthat knows that love heals.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the service concluded, other Bishops joined Hoshibata at the front of the room and invited individuals to come forward and have individual prayer for healing and anointing with a healing balm. The balm, provided on all delegate tables was a gift from the organization, Just Peace.<\/p>\n

This was Hoshibata\u2019s first opportunity to address the entire General Conference since his election to the Western Jurisdiction in 2004. Since election he has served the Portland Episcopal area and the Oregon-Idaho conference.<\/p>\n\n

Video of Bishop Hoshibata’s sermon begins at 1:34:12.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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