Here is MacArthur’s lead in, reflecting positively on a book that claims “there is no such thing as mental illness”

Clip comes from this talk around min 35 when JMac discusses his new book & claims Christian publishing rejected it b/c of wokeness. youtu.be/SV9Io7r_hGw?fe…

Marissa Franks Burt Dean Defuria Name and shame: ah, it's the sin of pride (etc), and the cure is repentance. When it doesn't work ... repent harder. At the end of the day all that it can point to is works righteousness.

It’s a direct pipeline to deconstruction (which again ppl will be blamed for) which is I contend necessary & a gateway out of self help Try Harder Christianity.

Hard to find a clearer modern version of “I follow Apollos” than a Bible printed with a man’s name on it. /end

External sources of authority threaten self-platformed omnicompetent pastors & followers

B/c if JMac doesn’t have the answers for everything, if there aren’t tidy charts and prooftexted verses as prescriptions, what then?

Sense of control is gone & the emptiness revealed 3/4

This is such an important point.

So, too, the biblical/nouthetic counseling framework had been exported as training.

Few things are more cruel than telling people struggling with mental illness that their problem is actually personal sin.

Now’s a fine time to remind you that not only has this man not earned an MD, but that he has not earned a PhD nor a DMin either. He’s not a doctor of any sort.

If you know someone with an MDiv (like me), congrats: you know someone as educationally qualified to say stuff as JMac.

🎯Nouthetic approaches cultivate scrupulosity. Such a treadmill to combine driven spirituality w/blaming ppl for resulting anxiety.

John MacArthur's theology kills souls. His brand of fruit-checking obsessive introspection mixed with a rejection of the existence of OCD as anything more than personal choice nearly killed me. Thank God for the means of grace.

Dismissing PTSD, OCD or ADHD (terms humans devised to name & make sense of things) requires a spiritual authority figure to instead define terms.

This is common in nouthetic resources - charts redefine terms or list sins or character qualities & it becomes an echo chamber.

GCC influenced counselors constantly miss things that have physical causes. Literally this year at TMU, a student was acting off (wouldn’t focus, sleep, study). Counselors told her to repent.

Friends, SHE HAD SWELLING ON HER BRAIN.

Hard to describe how disgusted and angry I am at these comments. I attended a church highly influenced by MacArthur, and while there were good people there, they did embrace the error that medication is sinful or wrong.

Much objectionable here, but I’m 👀 at: “If you parents kids properly, they will make right choices.”

Prosperity gospel parenting promises + nouthetic ideology comes w/heavy weight of shame: if it doesn’t work - however defined - you did it wrong.

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Eve Ettinger Coalition for Responsible Home Education I was homeschooled k-12, we were given only a base-level understanding of the alphabet and math, then left on our own. I couldn't read until I was 10 or 11 and the one time CPS was called, nothing happened bc my father was a cop. I am so glad there are groups like CRHE now.