Nervous Christians

By L. Gilbert Little

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562650572
• ISBN13: 9781562650575
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Example Product Manufacturer
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

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Overcoming stress and anxiety in the Christian heart

The subtitle of this book is Winning Over Worry, and the text addresses Christians who allow anxiety and "nerves" to deny themselves a full fellowship with the Lord. The title "Nervous Christians" makes this sound like a book about Christians questioning their faith, but it is nothing of the kind. Dr. L. Gilbert Little was an experienced Christian psychiatrist who strove to impart some of what he had learned from treating many patients over the course of his career. Although the Lord tells his followers to fear not, many Christians do find themselves burdened by worry, anxiety, and fear. Regular doctors and psychiatrists can help alleviate the symptoms of such problems, but they cannot actually cure the problems of nervous Christians because they do not have an understanding of spiritual things. For a Christian battling anxiety, healing requires confession of sins, not an artificial lessening of problematic symptoms. Therapy alone can not heal the nervous Christian, nor may prayer itself if the sufferer does not know what to pray for and cannot reestablish a fellowship with God. Christ alone is the true cure. Working from his experience treating nervous Christians over the years, Little points to three questions that those who come to him for help inevitably ask: 1) Am I really saved? 2) Is God punishing me for some past sin? and 3) How long can you worry without having a nervous breakdown? Many blame God for rejecting them, lamenting that their prayers go unheard, but Little insists this is never the case; Christ stands ready to comfort all of his children if they will just come to Him and lay all their burdens upon His caring shoulders. The basis of all problems described herein is fear, which Little describes as anguish of the soul rather than a mental affliction. Nervous Christians have, at some point, taken their eyes off Christ and focused on themselves, unconsciously becoming bound to Satan and his evil influence. Fear, which is the basis of the whole problem, does not just appear out of the blue; it is brought about by a personal separation from God. In order to recover and ward off such inner turmoil in the future, the Christian must determine how he went astray in the first place and guard against such influences in the future. Nervous Christians was published in 1956, but its lessons and insights are as valid today as they were decades ago. The hustle and bustle of life today leads many a Christian into despair, worry, and fear, and this need not be the case. This book has great wisdom to impart upon the Christian reader, and a chapter on "This Thing Called Fear" is brilliantly enlightening. As a medical doctor, Little does not deny the benefits of psychiatry, but nervous Christians need a higher form of therapy, one supplied by the hands of The Great Physician Himself. Psychology appeals to the mind, but the gospel appeals to the heart. Christians who find themselves battling worry and fear can benefit greatly by re