Mental Health and the Church.

Lets talk about it! Its real, its as real as a broken leg and a tumourous cancer that we pray over for healing. Mental health is a real challenge. Being christian doesnt make you exempt from it and dealing with it doesn't make you any less of a christian. So Im here for the next couple of episodes to talk about, why can the church and psychology not work coherently for both mental and spiritual well-being. Your spirituality is the most important aspect that shapes your perspective as well as your view of the world. Hence why mental health and spiritual health are not not mutually exclusive. Lets debunk the myth and stigma that inviting psychology into the church is inviting a secular culture, that you lack faith because you're depressed, that you don't trust God because you're anxious, that you worship two Gods because you're an alcoholic some behaviour cannot be simplified to sin and sin alone without a backstory. Some behaviours without you knowing may be the product of a negative experience, or trauma in or outside the church, sometimes its not enough to spiritually bypass, and diminish someones pain, depression, addiction or grievance to a singular religious understanding that they are sinful, prayer is the place to seek help and alleviate, but it should not used to diminish and problematize someones mental frustrations. therapy I believe can be a vessel ushered by God into a place of healing. God cannot be limited to a singular church cultue or practice He cannot be defined by one mans perspective God can use all and all of His creation for your betterment and mental health to him you lack nothing but need him, and when you need him He does not come in judgement, He does not come to shame but come to reconcile and bring relief, I believe God He is all understanding of His creation and the complexities of human emotion, the subsconscious and how negative experiences can harm such places, thus leaders need to understand where their role ends and begins they are not here to save, not here to play messiah but to teach in a voice that is humble and submitted to God. There they will know that a person is a holisitic being in need of health in all of its different facet, spiritual, physical and mental. I pray this episode bless you with revelation and understanding its time to understand a freeing love of God.