This week, Amanda Anderson continued on with our Take Me To Church Series by launching our three part set on beneath the surface discipleship. She shared her testimony, specifically in relation to the different stages of inner healing in her life.

Inner healing is a counseling movement that engages the use of prayer, forgiveness and repentance to reject lies and replace them with Biblical truths. Inner healing helps individuals process their painful memories and bring about restoration within their lives.

Part of Amanda’s personal journey of inner-healing included seasons of not feeling God or experiencing God, learning healthy dependence on other people, and working on rewiring her thinking – changing her brain through the reorganization of thought patterns.

At Waypoint we are committed to seeing people whole, set free, healed, and living in the fullness of who they are, and part of this process includes inner-healing and beneath the surface discipleship. This can take many forms, including prayer, counseling, and medication.

Amanda then interviewed Dr. Brian Lubberstedt about the link between mental health and the church. Dr. Brian shared that science and the church are not natural enemies of one another, and as Christians we have to get away from the historical division of the neck – the understanding that anything below the neck is medical, and anything above the neck is spiritual. We need to be consistent, as God can and will use doctors. We can approach our bodies from both a medical and a spiritual perspective, without feeling shame or condemnation about that.