TIL 464: A Christian's Guide to Mental Illness (feat. Sam Stephens)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
1. Definition of mental illness based on function rather than casuality
2. Discusion of quote concerning spiritual nature of mental illness
3. Defend biblical terminology so people see the hope found in Scripture
4. Deficiency in engaging with the major heads of psychiatric community
5. Do not diminish the hope found in Scipture for those who have physical issues
6. Distilling hope from Hebrews 9
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| 0:00.0 | A Christian's Guide to Mental Illness on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.4 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.9 | You guessed it. |
| 0:21.8 | It's the month of May, and we are talking about Mental Health Awareness Month. |
| 0:26.0 | And as a part of that, we are going to discuss several topics that are hot-button issues right |
| 0:31.1 | now in the world of mental health. |
| 0:33.8 | And that certainly impacts us in the biblical counseling world. |
| 0:37.2 | Today with me, I have |
| 0:38.4 | Dr. Sam Stevens, who's a professor of biblical counseling at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. |
| 0:43.7 | He serves full-time at ACBC as the director of membership and certification. I'm so grateful |
| 0:49.1 | for this brother. And today, our task is to talk about a very popular book that was released at the end of 2023. And we want to be gracious, but we also want to be wise in how we talk about the particular subject. The title of today's podcast is actually the title of the book, Christian's Guide to Mental Illness, put out by David Murray and Tom Carroll. Sam, we're going to talk about that today. This is going to be more of a discussion, |
| 1:11.3 | but I'm looking forward to the things that we can glean from this today and hopefully give some |
| 1:16.4 | of our listeners some wisdom and how we, how we, how we're to distinguish this idea of mental |
| 1:21.1 | illness as a concept. And let me start just by acknowledging several things that I can |
| 1:25.5 | appreciate. You don't start out by writing a book |
| 1:27.7 | or wanting to address a topic that's popular in our culture like mental illness if you don't |
| 1:32.7 | appreciate people, if you don't like people. And so I appreciate that intentionality from Mr. |
| 1:37.5 | Murray and Mr. Carroll. He acknowledges the difficulties of this idea and concept of mental |
| 1:43.6 | illness. For example, he says on page two, |
| 1:45.7 | there's a mystery in it talking about mental illness at times which science has never fully |
| 1:50.6 | understood or explained. He recognizes some of the complexities of this concept of mental illness. |
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