The church's ministry of healing is concerned with the health of man as a total person. Two definitions of healing are particularly helpful. A careful study of these definitions reveals several important truths about healing. First of all, healing has as its objective the making possible of the normal functioning of the person on the highest level of being. In the second place, healing relates to every aspect of the human personality - body, mind and spirit.
Healing is concerned with wholeness for the total person.
Sometimes the basic need of a person is for physical healing. At other times the basic need is mental and emotional. Again the basic need is often spiritual. Perhaps there are fundamental needs in more than one area of human personality. Or there may be the need for the harmonious working of all the component parts of the human personality.