More on remarks from Craig Satterlee

The professor of homiletics at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and first speaker Friday at the assembly of the Southwestern Washington Synod said that healing is not necessary the full result of prayer for the sick.
"I'm convinced that physical healing may be a manisfestion of the wholeness, but the wholeness is more important," the Rev. Dr. Craig Satterlee said.
Jesus did not demonstrate in any way the Old Testament notion that sickness is define punishment, or visited upon people to teach them patience and endurance.
"Jesus understands sickness as a disruptive force contrary to God, and so Jesus stops it."
Regarding wholeness, Satterlee said that attaining wholeness in times of sickness means coming to grips with the brokenness of our relationship with God, dealing with our isolation from community, and our inability to fulfill vocation.
"Jesus wants to get at the brokenness that lies at the heart and that grows from sickness," he said.