The Doctor is In

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week we bring the doctor in! Dr. Mike Emlet recently wrote Descriptions and Prescriptions – A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications. He’s trained as a medical doctor, as a pastor, an active counselor, and he teaches counseling. Dr. Emlet seriously cares for people’s body and soul, taking both a biblical and scientific approach to that care.As Christians, should we be skeptical about psychiatric diagnoses and their treatments? Is it helpful to label such approaches as unbiblical? On the other hand, is it proper to dive right into the use of medication, trusting everything related to science and medicine, while ignoring spiritual issues? Dr. Emlet shows us a third way and lays the groundwork for a balanced, biblical approach toward those struggling mentally, spiritually, and physically.Please join us for this informative interview!We have a several copies of "Descriptions and Prescriptions" by Michael Emlet courtesy of New Growth Press that we are giving away. Enter for your chance to win. You may purchase copies of "Descriptions and Prescriptions directly from New Growth Press.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:21.7	With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:36.8	Music Well, welcome to Mordification of Spin, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:49.6	I'm here with my usual co-hosts, Amy Bird and Mega Church Pastor, the Reverend Todd Pruitt.
0:57.6	And today we have a special guest.
0:59.8	Actually, the first guest we've had live in the studio, if I can glamorize it with that name,
1:05.7	live in the studio for over a year.
1:08.0	It's Dr. Mike Emmlett, who is a faculty member and a counsellor at CCEF, the Christian
1:13.4	Counselling Education Foundation, just outside Philadelphia, very close to Westminster Seminary.
1:19.8	Mike is a qualified medical doctor, but now spends most of his time doing counseling work for
1:27.4	churches, for Christians who are struggling
1:30.1	with one or issue another. But his medical background in many ways makes him a uniquely
1:35.3	helpful resource for pastors and Christians because he's not only competent to care for the soul of people, but he also has that
1:46.4	high degree of competence in caring for the body, the physiological aspects. And he's written
1:51.7	a very interesting, very helpful book, a book that I would certainly urge everybody out there,
1:57.5	particularly pastors and elders to get hold of, booker descriptions and prescriptions,
2:02.4	a biblical perspective on psychiatric diagnoses and medications, dealing with that issue that will come
2:08.9	up again and again in canceing situations in the church. To what extent do we see any problem
2:15.4	as it presents itself to us as a spiritual one? And to what extent do we
2:19.3	see it as perhaps having physiological causes? And how do we see those two things coordinating? So
2:24.7	welcome to the show, Mike. Great to have you, have you with us. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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