Thanks for joining us on the brand new Ask Paul Trip podcast with Pastor and author Paul David Tripp.

My name is Ben Fallon, the executive director over here at Paul Trip Ministries, and I would love to hear from you if you have a question for Paul.

You can either email ask at paultrip.com or submit it anonymously on our website at paultrip.com slash ask.

Here's today's question, Paul, but first, a bit of context, I think.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that one in five U.S. adults and one in six

U.S. youth experienced mental illness or mental health disorder each year.

These stats aren't limited to just America,

though, because in the UK, the National Health Service reported that one in five children and

young people, aged 8 to 25, had a probable mental disorder in 2023. With all these numbers swirling

around in the media, how should a Christian think about this mental health issue? Someone asked, how do we engage with the

mental health statistics and consider if there's any medical merit without giving way to a secular

worldview that ignores or minimizes what the Bible has to say about sin, depravity, and the

condition of the human heart? Well, here are the two extremes that you want to avoid.

The culture, because it doesn't believe in the heart,

in the way the scripture defines it, the heart is being the center of your emotions, your mind, your will.

The heart is the causal core, it's the directional system of a human being.

Since the world doesn't believe that, the world tends to biologize everything.

Everything is biological or physical.

That's an unbiblical view of the human being.

The other extreme is in the church and it's a tendency for us to spiritualize everything

every dysfunction is somehow a sin issue

and neither one of those two extremes are biblical.

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