A rampant idolatry is bringing the evangelical church undone all across the West,
“Today, even as many leading
secular psychologists and pyschiatrists are debunking their own profession in
books and articles with such titles as The Myth of Mental Illness; The Myth of
Neurosis; Psychotherapy,The Dangerous Cure; The Death of Psychiatry;
Psychoanalysis, The Impossible Profession, etc., Christian psychologists wax
ever more eloquent in praise of the very system that is being exposed as a
harmful fraud by secular practitioners! As a result, discredited psychological
theories and practices that have deceived and damaged almost the whole of
mankind are being embraced within the church.”
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David Hunt, Psychology and the Church
One of the biggest flaws of the evangelical Church,
actually it’s not just a flaw, it’s an idol, is the pernicious desire to be
loved by the world, and seen as credible by the world. You see it in
conservative apologetics ministries that love to tout how many PhD’s they have
on staff. You see it in how many pastors refuse to confront pagan ideologies
like evolution, or egalitarianism in the church, or animist practices like
acknowledgement or welcome to country. You see it in how if experts say that
the church must align with some worldly practice, like gender affirmation or
self esteem promotion, the Church works hard to incorporate it into their
practice.
And you especially see it in how the church defers to
psychology for understanding how people can have better emotional well being.
The irony is that the more society relies on the profession of psychology for
mental health, the more depressed, anxious, and tormented people have become,
because a lot of the issue is spiritual and moral, and this is meant to be the
Church’s area of expertise. The shepherds have been taught to abandon the flock that Jesus said needed him (Matt. 11:28-30) to a secular profession that originated
in literal antichrist philosophy. It’s incredible.
Because of this idolatry of needing to be loved by the
world. The church is taking its cue from what the culture accepts, so it’s
largely behind the eightball on this issue. It will be secular physicians and
scientists that eventually unseat this profession, when it should have been the
church all along. Many secular psychology experts are already tolling the bell,
but denominations are currently seeking to encourage their pastors to be
pastored by psychologists. It’s like a cruel joke, that demonstrates the bankruptcy
of thought in the modern evangelical church. A complete inability to recognize
that Jesus warned us against friendship of the world for this very reason, it
blinds the church to this very sort of thing.
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