We kick off a new series with this episode—Whole-Hearted: Becoming Healthier Christians at Work.

 

If you’re like me, your work and your mental health influence each other quite a bit.

 

On the one hand, you want to experience that elusive sense of security and well-being that doesn’t depend on your work performance. You want to be a healthy human being.

 

On the other hand, you want to perform. You want to do well, to do a good job. You want to take responsibility for everything that’s yours to tackle. You want to be the kind of human being who grows more competent over time.

 

There’s a paradox: We need to accept ourselves as we are to be healthy. But we also need to grow and change to be healthy. We need to embrace the challenges that face us. And we need to be okay, somehow, when we fail to meet them the way we wish we would.

 

In our faith, we face the same paradox. We want to rest in God’s love for us, separate from our performance. But we also want to grow into deeper Christian character. Sometimes our attempts to “be good Christians” can become really unhealthy. But not trying isn’t healthy either.

 

Here’s one way to ask the question: How can I become a better Christian without becoming a worse human being?

 

That’s what this series is all about. We’ll talk about how we put our spiritual life and our mental health together at work—and how we let Jesus guide us in both.

 

In our first part of the series, we’ll explore a biblical and theological anthropology: What makes up the human person? We’ll look at our thoughts, our feelings, our heart, our body, and our soul.

 

In the second part of the series, we’ll look at different mental health challenges we might face at work: depression, anxiety, addiction and recovery, neurodiversity, and trauma.

 

As we go, we’ll ask Jesus to show us his way of life no matter what challenges we’re facing in the workplace.

 

Sources: Luke 10:25-28 (NIV)

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