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Deliver us from mental illness?
How should Christians understand mental illness? What are the causes of these problems? And what hope does Jesus offer those who suffer from Mental distress?
Drawing on his personal experience of work within in the mental health field, Alan seeks to explain how ‘God’s grace is suffient’ in illness. To listen to the talk, click here.
Questions
What resources would you recommend for churches to support those suffering from mental illness?
I am not aware of resources for churches specifically but I have found some useful books and articles that are worth mentioning.
Hard Questions about Health and Healing by Andrew Fergusson is written from a medical perspective and addresses lots of the difficult issues that Christians grapple with include miraculous healing and the purpose of suffering.
Tested by Fire by John Piper is a helpful book reflecting on the fruit of affliction or suffering from the Bible and the lives of Bunyan, Cowper and Brainerd.
Several doctors from the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) have written helpful articles on psychiatry and mental health from a Christian point of view, including on a spiritual framework for mental illness, evaluating therapies from a Christian point of view, working in psychiatry as a Christian, and the demonic (click links to read).
WATCH
The following clips were played at the mental health evening on 12th April. The top clip is a hymn by William Cowper, a poet and hymn writer who lived in the 1700 and suffered from depression. The bottom clip is Ester speaking about her experience of mental illness as a Christian.
Read any good books? Have any comments or questions? Post below.
