The system of church must be able to cope with it, especially given that the church is a hospital for the sick. What I talk about here is not physical disease, but the mental, emotional, spiritual maladies that so many of us have been dogged by. I have had three major bouts of depression, I have suffered panic attacks, and I have endured enough grief to understand and accept that suffering is endemic to life
So hy is there a perception that those with depression are not welcome in the church?
Pastors need to show courage, ironically in their weakness by being vulnerable, to encourage others in their weakness.
- That sort of example of weakness begins with the pastor!
- But churches don't seem to like their pastors being weak.
- This is because we've fallen for the lie that leaders are strong.
- Why is it that pastors need to project the image that they have it all together? None of us do...
- Thei heroes in the Bible didn't.
