The pastor of the church I attend stated that one of the things that hold Christians back from being whole is that we hold on to the past. We can’t become new when we are holding on and remembering the past. The past is no longer real and just something that lives in our mind.
He then moved on to closure and how it is something that is not mentioned in the Bible and that it is a modern day psychological term. When Jesus died on the cross he closed it. We shouldn’t wonder about why someone did wrong to us, just to let it go and move on to the life that God wants us to live. You literally can’t be holding on to the past and expect to move forward. We are the ones that hold on to the past not the other way around.
What really got me to thinking is when he started talking about therapy. He stated that when therapists are talking about whatever problems that we may have a couple of years ago, they go all the way back to our childhood and asks us to start from there. He added that basically we are depending on someone to heal us that charge us by the hour to keep the emotional door of our life open. We can’t get over the problems of our pasts while wallowing in them. I don’t want to misquote the pastor but he also made a comment about how a can a natural person solve a spiritual/ divine problem.
Does going to therapy for help getting over what happened to us in the past not fall in line with Christianity? Should we ask God to help us with what we can’t do which is let go of what happened in the past and rebuke thoughts of the past as they come? Would it make a difference whether it was church counselor or if you went to a therapist outside of the church?
I would also like to state that I am not in any way trying to be disrespectful in questioning the message that the pastor was speaking as I thought the overall message was great and inspirational. I have just never heard a pastor make a comment like that about therapy and I want to get a full understanding as this is a subject very near and dear to my heart. I also know of a lot of people that I wish would go to therapy to deal with their emotional issues.
Wicky
He then moved on to closure and how it is something that is not mentioned in the Bible and that it is a modern day psychological term. When Jesus died on the cross he closed it. We shouldn’t wonder about why someone did wrong to us, just to let it go and move on to the life that God wants us to live. You literally can’t be holding on to the past and expect to move forward. We are the ones that hold on to the past not the other way around.
What really got me to thinking is when he started talking about therapy. He stated that when therapists are talking about whatever problems that we may have a couple of years ago, they go all the way back to our childhood and asks us to start from there. He added that basically we are depending on someone to heal us that charge us by the hour to keep the emotional door of our life open. We can’t get over the problems of our pasts while wallowing in them. I don’t want to misquote the pastor but he also made a comment about how a can a natural person solve a spiritual/ divine problem.
Does going to therapy for help getting over what happened to us in the past not fall in line with Christianity? Should we ask God to help us with what we can’t do which is let go of what happened in the past and rebuke thoughts of the past as they come? Would it make a difference whether it was church counselor or if you went to a therapist outside of the church?
I would also like to state that I am not in any way trying to be disrespectful in questioning the message that the pastor was speaking as I thought the overall message was great and inspirational. I have just never heard a pastor make a comment like that about therapy and I want to get a full understanding as this is a subject very near and dear to my heart. I also know of a lot of people that I wish would go to therapy to deal with their emotional issues.
Wicky