Rebranded Christianity

There is a sense of hopelessness that can set in when we see someone in our lives experience a serious mental illness. This hopelessness ultimately can lead to rejection and relational abandonment. This is a fact about mental illnesses - they are treatable medical conditions; recovery from a mental illness is possible. One of the components of the recovery process is friendships and relationships; therefore, that person in your life whom you might have abandoned because you believed there was no hope for them actually needs a relationship with you to help them recover. In this teaching, I will share how God used a popular story from the Gospels to help restore hope and faith within my heart so that I would have a relationship with a person in my life who is living with a mental illness.