Mental Health and The Black Church Roundtable 

Yes and Amen!

We can have these types of discussions, yet the people whom need to hear this are NOT the ones who are LISTENING to THIS! Great information! And I am one who has struggled with anxiety and depression that has been clinically diagnosed.

A body! A community!

Where we are weak, God makes us strong! My weaknesses may not be your weaknesses!

That right there!

Christopher hits the nail on the head , there’s a serious, to the level of toxicity, lack of education when it comes to mental illness in the black community, and especially in the black church.

This was so so good. Hope there will be a foillow up .The Black church and Black families need to have these conversations on mental wellness & unwellness without fetishising scriptures & gaslighting people 's hurt and struggles into silence.

Because we tend to be visual ppl, I wish these clinicians did have actual numbers of those black churches that are allotting their financial resources in the area of mental health. There are so many of our people struggling with mental health issues and cannot afford or have limited insurance coverage for Mental Health Issues.

We need to teach that deliverance is a process. We need to teach Jesus love you despite your mental health. Everybody in the Bible did not get healed tomorrow morning. Some people never got healed and die. This does not mean God is fake nor a lack of faith. This generation need to understand their salvation is not based on people but God. I am leader but have a therapist. I teach the word

God remind me, we are fickle people. "When are they going to do better? Why are they deciding to do better now?" Fickle....