Mental Health Introduction: It’s OK to Not Be OK

Challenges and struggles with mental health affect most every family. Yet a stigma lingers around talking about mental health. In our families. In our friend groups. In the church.
 
So, we’re going to talk about it. With love. With an eye on resources God has given us to seek help. With compassion.
 
Come as you are, invite your friends and loved ones, and let’s have some honest discussion in church about mental health.
 
There is a path forward. There is healing. There is hope.

Supporting Scripture

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.  Hebrews 4:15

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:  If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.  Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being temptedHebrews 2:17-18

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you restMatthew 11:28

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10: 10

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free.  Luke 4:18

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