Partnership with Jesus

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Introduction:

Read for This Week's Study: Mark 1:21–35; Luke 4:31–42; Matt. 6:14, 15; 25:34–46; 26:36–44; Ps. 31:24.

Memory Text:


“ ‘Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me’ ”(John 15:4, NIV).


In recent years, research has pointed to the positive effects that religiosity, faith, spirituality, prayer, forgiveness, hope, and church attendance can have on health, including mental health. Numerous prominent scientific publications have reported a connection between religious faith and positive mental and emotional well-being. Surprise of surprises!

Yet, this is not magic; the faith factor applies only to those who are deeply committed to their religious principles. Psychiatrist Montagu Barker, an expert in the interface between religion and mental health, states that religion is a potent safeguard against mental illness, but only when believers possess a strong commitment to their beliefs. If not, religion may become a source of guilt and the cause of emotional, mental, and behavioral disturbances.

This week we will look at our best example, Jesus, to learn how we can be strong in faith. By studying His life and maintaining a close relationship with Him, we can build solid mechanisms for spiritual growth, which itself can lead to better mental health.

Prayer and Bible study, worship, the practice of forgiveness, service to others, and hope and trust in God are sure pathways to spiritual development and mental health. With Jesus as our Example, we surely can’t go wrong.

Every Christian of any religion would agree to this.

Read this link and let us know what you think.
http://www.ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/11a/less13.html

This isn't PPR.
Go to PPR with religion.
There's a whole forum for it.

Thank you for sharing this with us. I have the same beliefs that you do.

Partnership?
I'm doing all the work in my life.

It seems Jesus is the only book character you can form so-called personal relationships with without people thinking you're weird.

I don't need or want Jesus and I was wondering, with this mindset how reading the bible back to front or attending church or hanging out with people who do would benefit me in the slightest. In fact I would imagine this would give me no end of stress. If you are advocating it then are you in fact saying that what you are advocating is not only "potentially" able to give rise to "positive effects that religiosity, faith, spirituality, prayer, forgiveness, hope, and church attendance can have on health, including mental health."
But also "potentially" able to induce high stress.
I don't know why you would promote that so readily?

Me and Jesus have a civil partnership, 'cause the damn church won't let us marry.

This should be in PPR. As Atheism related topics should be. What you see as an awe inspiring view of the world, many of us see as a nuisance. Forgive me if I'm being impatient, I'm just back from a debate at my college in which a Muslim advocate got a round of applause from a hundred Muslims for saying "Beating, Wrong. Throwing Acid, Wrong. Stoning, in the correct circumstances, right". If I want to hear about Religion, I'll go looking for it