A Day of “Intergenerational Healing”

 

Intergenerational healing is an aspect of Jesus’ ministry of healing He gave to the church.  While some of the problems with which we suffer started with us, others come to us from previous generations.  While we are often blessed to inherit good things from our forebears, sometimes we’re the unfortunate inheritors of  a negative legacy.

 

It’s obvious this is true with things physical.  We can inherit physical virtues (Pearson men have great stamina, for example), but we can also inherit physical problems (cancer runs in some families, for example).  The recent discovery of DNA is simply science catching up with observations people have made for centuries.

 

What about inheriting propensities to certain good attitudes and actions?  Or bad ones?  Is it ALWAYS because of how one was raised or could there be an inheritance factor?

 

I would argue that sometimes our bad attitudes, our vulnerability to certain temptations, and our improper, even evil actions can be inherited.  Why do I believe that?

 

*Some children raised in good and godly homes turn out bad and some children in bad homes turn out good and godly … so it can’t be just how they were nurtured.  Something has been passed along from previous generations.

 

*What about children adopted at birth that  much more resemble their birth parents than their adoptive parents?  So it can’t be just nurture.  Something has been passed along from previous generations.

 

So what do we do about this?

 

(a) take authority in the name of Jesus to cut bondages and ties;

(b) forgive those in our past (whether we know them or not) from whom we have inmherited the negatives;

(c) fill with Jesus “the house now swept clean”.  Remember, we’ve been delivered FROM that which is bad for us and others so we can be delivered UNTO God and the good things He has in store for us to enjoy and pass on to others.

 

We’ve got a day long workshop on Intergenerational Healing coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2010.

(Specific location, somewhere in southeastern New Hampshire / northeastern Massachusetts, to be announced.)  Watch this web site for updates.

 

Leader is the Rev. Canon Mark A. Pearson assisted by others with healing ministries.  Canon Mark has led numerous of these Intergenerational Healing days around the country.

 

(Interested in having him do one of these for your church?  Get in touch with his office at 603 642 3002, or email him at canonpearson@yahoo.com)