An excerpt from When Hurting People Come to Church on how lay ministry can supplement and support professional mental health care.
Amid America’s massive mental health crisis, the church has a duty to step up and help.
Of course, there are times when people need more help than a pastor or a ministry can provide. But in many cases, churches are letting professionals do what the church was intended to do. It is time to stop thinking of “mental health care” as essentially synonymous with “professional counseling,” and instead see it as just one more everyday example of Galatians 6:2: carrying each other’s burdens to fulfill the law of Christ.
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