Greetings, SoldOut Movement Family!
Dr. Joe Garmon has given us an insightful and comprehensive “guide” for disciples to better understand mental illness and positive mental health from a godly point of view. Set Free will undoubtedly build confidence in our disciples’ ability to navigate their own life challenges and/or support others persevering through the obstacles that mental health challenges can be to their discipleship!
With over 20 years of unique experience as a licensed psychologist AND evangelist, Dr. Garmon has packed this book full of spiritual wisdom and clinical insight! It is hard to pick out just one passage to capture how helpful this book can be to our ministries, but here goes!
“Good mental health, just like good physical health, has value in that it can allow us to become more effective and fruitful in our spiritual lives. Mental health cannot give us a relationship with God, forgiveness of sin, or give us a home in heaven. Only God’s Word can lead us to these. Like physical health, mental health is of “some value,” (1 Timothy 4:8) but only godliness has eternal value.
One can have good mental health and not be in a relationship with God. Being psychologically healthy can help deal with some of the distress that mental illnesses bring, but without God’s saving grace, one can still be in a lost state. It can help us to be more fruitful and joyful as disciples, but it cannot make disciples – only God through His Holy Spirit can make the harvest grow. However, it is very difficult to be spiritually mature if we are not emotionally mature.”
I know as a shepherd – called by God to strengthen and mature the sheep – Set Free will be ON MY DESK as an ongoing resource to build up God’s church! Our ICC Family of Churches has needed this kind of book to help us navigate through so many of Satan’s attacks on people’s capacity to find peace of mind and stay in their right mind! Thank you, Dr. Garmon for delivering such a precious teaching at just the right time!
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