What is the biblical basis for the idea that the church is a hospital for sinners?
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And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Mark 2:16-17
Jesus' ministry was not limited to just the spiritual. He healed the sick, physical healing; he ministered to the brokenhearted, emotional healing; and he taught and preached, spiritual healing.
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Matthew 9:35
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.
Isaiah 61:1
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the church or a body of believers are saints who have been spiritually healed that gather together with the LORD in there midst to be built up and encouraged by the edification of Godly fellowship. so they with love can share this good news with sinners in hope that they too will stop rejecting the Lord Jesus and be healed.
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Despite the answers given by those above, there is no place in Scripture that references "THE CHURCH" like a hospital. However, I don't think that this discounts the metaphor of the Church being like a hospital. Ultimately, we are the place where the broken and sick gather, but it is still the Great Physician who does the healing, not the Church. The Groom is the Doctor, the Bride is to be the 'gurny' wheeling in the lost.
We see this idea taught throughout Christ's ministry and even among the apostles' teachings.
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