Megachurch Pastor J.D. Greear has criticized the positivity-only way some churches handle depressed Christians, explaining that believers need to know God is with them through their pain.
“Sometimes, I think we can be too quick with our answers in church: ‘Are you feeling sad? Life got you down? Well, that can’t be from God! Just pop on some K-love, ’cause everything in the Christian life should be positive and encouraging all the time,'” Greear wrote on his website Monday.
“But when you are experiencing depression, you don’t need a quick encouragement. You need a God who walks through pain with you,” he added.
Greear, who’s the pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, referred to biblical figures that have faced much suffering and depression, such as the prophet Jeremiah in Lamentations 3:1–8.
He suggested that some Christians can relate to the feeling of having “no light, no hope.”
“Maybe you’ve also felt like God is not listening — or, even more, you wonder, ‘God, are you behind this terrible circumstance? At the very least, you’re not doing anything to…
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