Is it possible to be spirituality healthy but have mental health issues? It’s a question that many are asking and that one pastor at a megachurch has chosen to address.
Brad Hambrick, who serves as pastor of counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, wrote in a blog post that the answer to the question is “yes,” but it is important to explain why.
Hambrick, who is also an author and instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, first suggested several measures of what makes a Christian spiritually healthy, such as embracing the Gospel.
He defined the above as: “An individual [who] recognizes their sinful condition and leans fully on the hope of Christ’s death-resurrection to provide freedom from the overwhelming guilt this sober self-awareness would otherwise create.”
Other markers for a healthy Christian include spiritual discipline, personal devotion, devout character, and having a robust theological framework, where an individual “is able to understand and articulate the biblical world-view that undergirds the previous four marks of spiritual health.”
He argued that it is possible to display those characteristics while simultaneously suffering from mental health challenges.
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