Jesus is our only hope.

Jesus is the only Son of God, who became a man to live in perfect obedience to God's Law, suffer for the consequences of our sin, and rise from death to ensure our forgiveness and adoption into the family of God. His work is our only hope for salvation. This is the Gospel (or good news) and it is central to the work of Faith & Mental Illness.

The Bible is trustworthy.

God has spoken to us through the Scriptures. The Bible is the Word of God which has been faithfully recorded and preserved for us. Knowing God is the point of the Bible. It reveals His character, works, power, and purposes so that we can know and worship Him.

Faith & Mental Illness provides sound, biblical teaching and discernment to help understand mental illness. We will never play hermeneutical gymnastics in order to prove a point or try to make the Bible say anything it doesn't.

The Church is called to love our neighbors.

The church is the people of God who have been saved to proclaim His worth to each other and the world. Faith & Mental Illness believes an important part of this involves loving our neighbors who are struggling with mental illness.

We do this by trying to understand mental illness and respond with grace, compassion, and truth--like Jesus did so many times in the Gospels and in our own lives. Faith & Mental Illness equips the church to understand mental illness from a biblical perspective so we can demonstrate compassion and grace.

Mental illness is real.

The world is broken. Satan has attempted to unravel all of God's good design by introducing sin. The effects are seen globally, relational, physically, and mentally. Mental illness is a very real consequence of the undoing of God's perfect design for our minds. It has perplexed the church for some time now. One reason for this is that it can be difficult to understand. We easily understand a brain tumor as a product of the Fall, but depression might be more difficult. Faith & Mental Illness chooses to move through the confusion and toward those struggling in order to help (Lk. 10:37).

Clinical perspectives are needed.

God is the sovereign King of all that is. He provides relief from suffering through miraculous direct interventions and through doctors who treat, make diagnoses, and prescribe medicine. It doesn’t take anything away from God’s sovereignty and power when he chooses to work indirectly rather than directly. He created the mind to discover cures, make diagnoses, and provide healing treatments whatever the field of medicine may be.

Faith & Mental Illness believes God has given wisdom, insight, and skill to psychologists, therapists, and other mental health professionals for understanding mental illness. They have received His common grace for the common good. While common grace does not sanctify their conclusions, it does embed within them a gift of God for the good of all.