Well-being by Design – God has called us into deep relationship with Him – that is good for us both spiritually and mentally.
Romans 12:1–2 (NLT) ¹ And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. ² Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Not only did Jesus associate with the poor, the widow, the stranger, and the outcast (lepers), he treated people in ways that respected their dignity. [design of God – Psalm 139]

Jesus continued the Old Testament focus on the widow, the orphan, the foreigner and the poor, but expanded it to include other groups who in Jesus’ day were also marginalized, such as the leper, the demon-possessed, the blind, the lame, those excluded from corporate access to God via the religious elite.

Today, the Church can be a light for those that are often marginalized and misunderstood. Those one in five Australian’s suffering from mental illness. The Church can bring hope and light into a dark place…