Feeling Blue?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It’s group therapy in the bunker. The crew is feeling blue, and the only cure at this moment is to get together and discuss their gloominess.Depression and anxiety are real issues. But is depression a sin? Saints from Biblical times to today have experienced discouragement and depression. What can we learn from them?Join the meeting and find out how to minister to those who are struggling with this issue, as we discover what measures of comfort the Word of God offers to those who are in Christ. Show NotesLectures to My Students - The Minister’s Fainting Fits chapterMartin Luther’s AnfechtungenMan of Sorrows, What a Name!Sign up for the opportunity to win a free copy of David Murray’s book Christians Get Depressed Too which are a gift from Reformation Heritage Books.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation. Well, you are listening to the Mortification of Spin.
0:46.0	This is Todd Pruitt, and I am joined, as always, by my co-hosts, Carl Truman and Amy Bird.
0:52.2	Carl, Amy, how are we doing?
0:54.6	How are you feeling today?
0:55.9	You're quite happy.
0:56.8	Carl, you happy today?
0:57.8	I'm doing as well as can be expected, given the company I find myself in.
1:03.2	Well, we thought we would talk about something uncomplicated without any nuance, and that
1:08.4	is the topic of depression and anxiety. So very simple, nobody has any
1:13.4	questions about those. But seriously, the church, the body of Christ, has all sorts of people.
1:20.2	And among those folks are those who struggle with depression and anxiety. And oftentimes we find
1:26.8	it hard to speak with and to minister to those who struggle
1:30.1	with that. I posted something just recently on depression and I talked about as a pastor,
1:35.8	even as someone who myself has struggled with gloominess and anxiety and depression, I find
1:42.4	it much easier to talk with someone about their cancer than I do to talk with a person who's suffering from depression about their depression. It's harder to get a handle on. I find oftentimes that people who struggle with depression are embarrassed by it. Even after all we know, there still is a kind of a stigma attached to it because let's face it, it belongs in the category of mental illness, even though oftentimes the causes are physiological.
2:07.2	And so there is a stigma attached.
2:08.9	And so, and it's also very easy sometimes to end up being like Job's friends, offering answers that might be in and of themselves in an abstract sense,
2:20.4	correct, but completely incorrect in that particular situation. And so we're like people using
2:26.5	tools unskilfully at those times. And so we just want to talk a little bit about how we might
2:31.1	be able to speak into the lives of those who are struggling,
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