Several years ago I delivered a message that centered around the idea that I called “Christian Schizophrenia.” Honestly, I got a lot of blow-back for being insensitive, unfeeling, and uncaring toward those in the congregation who might have mental illnesses. As a result I buried the idea in my files, but kept thinking about it often. Since then I’ve chosen to believe that I did not present the idea as well as I could have and that was why the opposition was so strong.

For me “Christian Schizophrenia” had to do with the war Christians battle between the old and new man… the struggle against indwelling sin… trying to understand the things I did I KNEW were wrong and how hard it was to do what I KNEW was right. The Scripture I used was Romans 7:15…

I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 19 I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 22 I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

Since the blow-back of that Sunday morning, right or wrong, I’ve kept my thoughts to myself… until two weeks ago when my wife and I had the joy of attending a recent Boyce College (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) graduation of our daughter-in-law. Dr. John Piper’s daughter was also graduating and he was delivering the commencement address. You can imagine my excitement just to know he was preaching… but the message captured me more because of what I described above.

Honestly, I hope you will take the time to listen to Dr. Piper. I believe strongly there are many believers who struggle emotionally that will be both helped and encouraged by the words God gave him…

http://equip.sbts.edu/event/sacred-schizophrenia-john-piper/