The Depression Epidemic
Why we're more down than ever—and the crucial role churches play in healing.
Dan G. Blazer
The
church is God's hospital. It has always been full of people on the mend. Jesus
himself made a point of inviting the lame, the blind, and the possessed to be
healed and to accompany him in his ministry, an invitation often spurned by
those who thought they were fine as is. We should not be surprised, then, that
the depressed populate not only secular hospitals and clinics, but our churches
as well. Yet depression remains both familiar and mysterious to pastors and lay
church leaders, not to mention to those who share a pew with depressed persons.
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