A talk delivered at the fortnightly prayer meeting of Christian Medical and Dental Association on our higher calling as Christian health-workers called to SERVE Christ and His kingdom on and through the platform of clinical services

1. DIVINE PRESCRIPTIONS
FOR THE PHYSICIAN
AS GOD’S SERVANT IN PUBLIC SERVICE
DR PETER UBUANE
DEPT OF PAEDIATRICS
LASUTH, IKEJA
CMDA PRAYER MEETING, 17TH MARCH 2021

2. PERSPECTIVES:
• OUR SONSHIP AS FOUNDATION OF OUR SERVICE TO GOD
• PERCEPTION OF TRUE SONSHIP OF SERVANT-PHYSICIANS
• HIS PRESCRIPTION FOR HIS PHYSICIANS

3. OUR SONSHIP AS FOUNDATION OF OUR SERVICE
TO GOD
- GAL. 4: 5-7
- JOHN 1: 12
- WHEREAS OUR PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION CONFERS ON US THE
PRIVILEGE OF SERVING HUMANITY, IT DOES NOT GRANT US SAME TO
SERVE THE KING OF KINGS!
- REMEMBER CORNELIUS…!

4. PERCEPTION OF THE SERVANTHOOD OF SON-
PHYSICIANS
• PHIL 2: 22
• TIMOTHY MODELLED A SERVING SON
• CHRIST’S REDEMPTION GRANTS US SONSHIP!
• BUT WHAT IS THE GOAL OF OUR SONSHIP
• … OF COURSE, GLORY
• …THROUGH THE PATHS OF SERVICE

5. HIS PRESCRIPTION FOR HIS PHYSICIANS IN 21ST
CENTURY CLINICAL PRACTICE
• THE WORD OF GOD IS NEVER OUTDATED
• NO ETHICAL PRINCIPLES CAN OUTMODEL THE WORD
• NOT EVEN THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH!
• …AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW! GAL 5.22-25
• THE SPIRITUAL-SECULAR DICHOTOMY IS ALIEN TO SCRIPTURE:
• COL 3. 22-25; 4:1
• EPH 6.5-9
DOES OUR LIVES CHALLENGE & CONTRAST THE PREVALENT PERMISSIVENESS
AND MEDIOCRITY IN TODAY’S PUBLIC SERVICE?