So there's a pastor in Northern California who's having very good success getting folks to find the motivation needed to make the changes necessary for quick, noticable, and lasting relief from crippling cognitive disease.
He only gets to spend a couple of hours with them in total as part of a comprehensive 10-day residential treatment plan. But his part has become a particular highlight of the program and the results are truly astounding.
He preforms a sweeping inventory of individual mental health liabilities based on Biblical principles in roughly 30 minutes.
And many of his client/patients come in as avowed ATHEISTS. And rarely is he unable to help them.
That's right.
He first builds a rapport with the patient which can take a little longer for skeptics, but once he is able to convince them he only wants to help them and that there is good reason for them to even want or expect any help from God he begins the inventory.
The first question is about their level of satisfaction in life. He asks them how they value what they have, want, and feel about the quality of their life or the lack thereof.
Then he moves on to asking about how they are experiencing or feeling about truthfulness in life, i. e., are they being honest with others and themselves or if they are victims of any dishonesty.
Next comes personal relationships with others, loyalty and/or betrayal on his part or that of others.
Next up is fair dealing or experiences and feelings about fraud, theft, financial commitments, again, on his own behalf or that of others.
Then, quality and quantity of health, life; what he is or is not doing to preserve and improve his own life and that of others, and how others' actions in this regard affect him.
Then comes issues of authority and subordination from his and others' perspectives.
Then, if he is having any problems with fatigue or exhaustion or any neglect of recreation, vacation, or regular cycles of rest—nightly circadian, etc.
Then he asks if the patient feels duly respected or if he renders due respect to others.
Then comes issues with excessive preoccupation with things that do not actually enhance the quality of his own life or that may degrade others' life quality.
And, finally, the patient is asked if he makes time to contemplate with a sense of awe the miracle of the existence of things that minister to the life and happiness of living things in the observable universe.
When this is done, the patient invariably marvels and asks the counselor how he could have gotten the guidance on how to do such a quick and thorough inventory of personal issues.
It is then that he tells them that God showed it to him from the Bible.
They ask "Where is that in the Bible?"
He answers:
"We just went in backwards order through the underlying principles of the 10 commandments—the only part of the Bible that God wrote with His own finger."
Normally, on Christian forums, the subject of the ten commandments is discussed in terms of obligation and the possible punitive ramifications of their dismissal.
What I was hoping to do with this thread was to start a conversation about how they might have been intended as a method of protection against poor mental and even physical health.
I'd like to make this OP a little more comprehensive (read: long) but I tend to ramble and there could be no good stopping place so...
He only gets to spend a couple of hours with them in total as part of a comprehensive 10-day residential treatment plan. But his part has become a particular highlight of the program and the results are truly astounding.
He preforms a sweeping inventory of individual mental health liabilities based on Biblical principles in roughly 30 minutes.
And many of his client/patients come in as avowed ATHEISTS. And rarely is he unable to help them.
That's right.
He first builds a rapport with the patient which can take a little longer for skeptics, but once he is able to convince them he only wants to help them and that there is good reason for them to even want or expect any help from God he begins the inventory.
The first question is about their level of satisfaction in life. He asks them how they value what they have, want, and feel about the quality of their life or the lack thereof.
Then he moves on to asking about how they are experiencing or feeling about truthfulness in life, i. e., are they being honest with others and themselves or if they are victims of any dishonesty.
Next comes personal relationships with others, loyalty and/or betrayal on his part or that of others.
Next up is fair dealing or experiences and feelings about fraud, theft, financial commitments, again, on his own behalf or that of others.
Then, quality and quantity of health, life; what he is or is not doing to preserve and improve his own life and that of others, and how others' actions in this regard affect him.
Then comes issues of authority and subordination from his and others' perspectives.
Then, if he is having any problems with fatigue or exhaustion or any neglect of recreation, vacation, or regular cycles of rest—nightly circadian, etc.
Then he asks if the patient feels duly respected or if he renders due respect to others.
Then comes issues with excessive preoccupation with things that do not actually enhance the quality of his own life or that may degrade others' life quality.
And, finally, the patient is asked if he makes time to contemplate with a sense of awe the miracle of the existence of things that minister to the life and happiness of living things in the observable universe.
When this is done, the patient invariably marvels and asks the counselor how he could have gotten the guidance on how to do such a quick and thorough inventory of personal issues.
It is then that he tells them that God showed it to him from the Bible.
They ask "Where is that in the Bible?"
He answers:
"We just went in backwards order through the underlying principles of the 10 commandments—the only part of the Bible that God wrote with His own finger."
Normally, on Christian forums, the subject of the ten commandments is discussed in terms of obligation and the possible punitive ramifications of their dismissal.
What I was hoping to do with this thread was to start a conversation about how they might have been intended as a method of protection against poor mental and even physical health.
I'd like to make this OP a little more comprehensive (read: long) but I tend to ramble and there could be no good stopping place so...
