This plenary session was originally presented by Sarah Colyn at the 2018 New Zealand Ministries of Pastoral Care School, Monday session 1.

This lecture provides an overview of the week, which is about the utter and substantial reality of Christ with us and within us, and the salvation, the healing, the freedom that come to us as we walk in the Presence.

The Holy One: The holiness of God is at the heart of Christian faith, and the healing ministry has to do with imparting the Holy.  

Associated readings: The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer; The Healing Presence, part 1, Leanne Payne.

The Presence of God With Us: God centers Himself in His people; we are a people of the Presence.

Associated readings: Real Presence: The Christian Worldview of C.S. Lewis as Incarnational Reality, Leanne Payne; Practicing His Presence, Brother Lawrence and Frank Lauback; On the Invocation of the Name of Jesus, a monk of the Eastern Church.

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