Who Are You #RTTBROS #Nightlight
About this episode
The episode discusses how mental health diagnoses can impact personal identity and emphasizes that one's identity is secure in Christ.
Who Are You? #RTTBROS #Nightlight You Are Not Your Diagnosis (On identity and mental health, drawing on Tim Clinton and the Soul Care Bible's core message) You Are Not Your Diagnosis "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." — Romans 8:38-39 I want to talk to you tonight about something that I see happen to people, good people, people of faith, people I care about deeply. They receive a diagnosis. Depression. Anxiety disorder. PTSD. Bipolar disorder. And slowly, almost without realizing it, that diagnosis becomes their identity. They stop being themselves and start being their condition. Tim Clinton, who served as the executive editor of the Soul Care Bible and as president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, has built much of his life's work around one central conviction: that God cares for the whole person, and that no matter what someone is walking through, the message of the gospel is that their identity is secure in Christ…
People in this episode
Host: Gene Kissinger
Topics covered
- identity
- mental health
- faith
- diagnosis
- gospel message
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Soul Care Bible
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