The Method Depended Upon the Word of God

From the very beginning of the Christian church there was a method and a ministry for dealing with mental-emotional problems. The method depended on the Word of God, which describes both the condition of man and the process of relief for troubled minds. The ministry was a prayer, healing, and teaching ministry that dealt with all non-organic mental-emotional disturbances. This entire process was known as the “cure of souls.” John T. McNeill in A History of the Cure of Souls describes this ministry as “the sustaining and curative treatment of persons in those matters that reach beyond the requirements of the animal life.” However, that has all changed with the arrival of the promiscuous pronouncements, promises, and practices of clinical psychology.

—Dr. Martin and Deidre Bobgan