Mental wellbeing: Four keys to human flourishing

Every so often I get taken aside by someone who tells me: “You talk about mental health and wellbeing, but you won’t find those words in the Bible; you are reading them into the text!” To which the answer is: “You are half right. Those modern terms are not found in Scripture; but the Bible does have its own vocabulary for the same ideas."

Let me show you what I mean...

A couple of years ago I set out to summarise the research into human flourishing that has been done over the last 40 years. My idea was to create an easy to remember template that Christians could use to look after their own mental wellbeing.