Inducing the Desire to Change

What fraternal correction can do

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“Do you want to be healed?” 

That is the question Jesus puts to the man lying by the Pool of Bethesda in John 5. The text notes that he had been there a long time—thirty-eight years, in fact. Christ’s question is a haunting one. We all think that if we are brok…