Chiropractors Speaking in Churches
“We’re no good to God or our families if we’re sick or dead”
I always believed the perfect place for a natural health message was the church. On the other hand, when I walked into the first church to talk to a pastor about speaking there; he quickly showed me the door. That was 20 years ago and I’ve now spoken in 100s of churches and helped chiropractors speak at 1000s.
After the first book I wrote, Body by God, became a NY Times and Christian Booksellers Association best-seller, I was asked to speak at the largest church in Canada. They invested at flying me and my family in from Florida, covering our expenses, and paying a nice honorarium.
The very first thing I did was ask the pastor why they would go to such lengths to bring me in to speak on health. He said, “Health comes first in our church – I’m no good to God or my family if I’m sick or dead!”
I asked another pastor how often someone asks for prayer over a health condition and you know the cause really comes from a poor lifestyle. He said, “Just the other day someone asked for prayer for heart disease and I quietly prayed for 1 less brownie.” He had us start an entire wellness ministry at his church after that conversation.
Eventually, I went back to that very first pastor I spoke with who had cast me out of his church when I suggested a health talk. This time he shared with me that so many people are sick, if they opened up a pharmacy in the lobby they would no longer need to take up an offering. He now understood it was poor stewardship with their body or as the Bible says, “Honor God with your body”1 Cor 6:20. We ultimately did health workshops as part of their Sunday morning Bible classes every month the entire next year. Hundreds became patients from that church.
I’ve been the Chairman of Global Wellness for the Global Church the last 15 years. Our education portal equips pastors in over 1500 nations and includes 6 different components I’ve written on health interpreted into many different languages. Pastors around the world call wellness ministry, “Compassion ministry” and “The 2nd hand of the gospel.”
A major component of the Christ-Centered-Chiropractic coaching is to help chiropractors get into churches to speak. This truly empowers doctors to go perform compassion ministry, be the hands of Christ in the community, and the 2nd hand of the gospel by bringing healing to the sick – or better yet; preventing the people of God from getting sick in the first place.
Interested in bringing your message of hope, healing, and that the power that made the body heals the bod to the churches of your community? A big part of the Christ-Centered movement is something called the “Pastor’s Invitation.” Helping doctors get their messages to the church through the Pastor’s Invitation is a core part of how we help to grow practices, serve God, and save the world.
Don’t miss training on speaking at churches and a chance to discover the Pastor’s Invitation at the March 6th CCC Mega Growth Summit.
With God, All Things Are Possible,
Dr. Ben Lerner
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