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However, if you live the church life, the very Christ whom you offer to God will heal you. He is better than any psychiatrist. Do not go to a psychiatrist - come to Christ and offer Him to God. Then you will be healthy, sober, and emotionally balanced.
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This is a good example of the dangerous types of things that WL taught. I imagine that when WL was up there giving all these messages, some heard these things and ran with it, others heard it and just shrugged it off, knowing very well that it was nonsense. But in either case, no one would dare characterize anything that WL taught as falling into the category of being optional or okay to disagree with.
When people are dealing with issues like substance abuse or mental health, there are often cases where some type of professional help or intervention is necessary. When WL said instead that the church life would heal people of all those problems, everyone who took his words at face value was automatically setup for failure.
Even worse, that eventual failure means that person inadvertently becomes a counterexample to something that WL taught, even if they had no intention of expressing disagreement or opposition to that kind of teaching. I can think of a number of people I knew in the LC who suffered from mental health issues. They were almost always looked down on. The were treated as if anything they were suffering from was their own fault because if they were right with God, then the church life would have fixed their problems already.