"Mental and emotional depression are the new maladies of modern man. They are diseases as surely as cancer or diabetes. To dismiss them with a thoughtless statement like 'there's sin in your life,' or 'it's a demon,' is a display of ignorance that reveals a lack of compassion and trivializes the suffering of others." - Ron Dunn

"As an evangelical theologian, I think the teaching about disease and healing in the Modern Faith movement is both heretical and often cruel. This approach largely follows the idea that sickness - depression and other emotional problems - is always caused by unbelief and sin. The claim is that God has done all he is going to do to provide perfect healing in Christ's spiritual atonement in hell, not his physical death on the cross. If a believer fails to appropriate this perfect healing it is because of unbelief or sin. The Apostle Paul's illness and need of a personal physician is enough to cast serious doubt upon Faith teachers' claims that a believer can and should always manifest perfect health." - Dr. Ken Hemphill

Depression