Samaritan Ministries

The Purpose: Why the Christian Health Care Newsletter exists

The Christian Health Care Newsletter is a Biblical method of sharing each other’s medical needs—it is not an insurance company. Our goal is to apply Galatians 6:2 — “Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ” — to the ever-rising medical costs which can be quite burdensome for anyone, single or married, young or old. Through the ministry shown here we can truly bear one another’s burdens while enjoying the blessings this program brings to our lives. The Bible also exhorts us to be good stewards of our finances, which Christian Health Care Newsletter will help us accomplish by lowering our medical costs.

Burden-bearing and Barn-raising

In our nation’s past, our forefathers were quite familiar with bearing one another’s burdens. If a man’s barn burned down, his friends, relatives and neighbors would come to his aid to raise a new barn, knowing full well that:

1) This burden was too much for one man to bear on his own and
2) Someday their barns may burn down or they may suffer loss in some other catastrophic way. They had a “barn-raising” mentality.

Today, our mentality is far from that of our ancestors. We still have the mandate to bear one another’s burdens, but we hardly know what that means anymore. If our barn burns down or an emergency medical problem arises, the government or the insurance company takes care of it and our friends, relatives and neighbors have little participation in restoring us to our former state. We don’t think we need each other in the way we used to. We’re not knocking government programs or insurance companies. We’re merely saying there is another way. Christians can minister to the body of Christ, while being thrifty with their money, and without ignoring their own medical needs. That is what the Christian Health Care Newsletter offers.

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