Spurgeon's Sorrows: Realistic Hope for those who suffer from depression by Zack Eswine

Author:Zack Eswine [Eswine, Zack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion: Christianity
Publisher: Christian Focus Publications
Published: 2014-11-10T07:00:00+00:00

The Sound of Reality

When we suffer depression, we wish that our preachers, Christian coffee shop talkers and answer-givers knew more about the prison in which we suffer before they proposed to speak about it.

One of Spurgeon’s contemporaries said it this way. A god-talker and a religious answer-giver must “have a sound of reality in the ears of victims such as these.” The salvation and rescue which such preachers and counselors propose to those who suffer “must come in as strong a form as the complaint” itself, if the message is to “take effect.”8

Our salvation messages will prove inadequate if they do not meaningfully account for the large portions of reality that cause screaming in the world; particularly with depression. It has long been recognized that a spirituality focused only on sunshine, positive thinking, immediacy and quick-fix Bible quoting “breaks down impotently as soon as melancholy comes.”9 When we attempt to help sufferers of depression without this kind of reality in our words, they will not be able to hear us because they will think that we have not yet heard them. The gospel we offer them will seem unable to handle the depth of what they actually experience in real life.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.