When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man Author: Edward T. Welch | Language: English | ISBN:
0875526004 | Format: PDF
When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man Description
- Series: Resources for Changing Lives
- Paperback: 239 pages
- Publisher: P & R Publishing (June 1, 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0875526004
- ISBN-13: 978-0875526003
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I'll have to admit, I was a little leery of this book from the title - peer pressure, codependency - come on, another Christian psycho-babble book? But I read it since a friend was reading it and I'll admit - I was wrong. When People Are Big is an outstanding book that has something to say about the self-centered psychology of Freud and Maslow - it's all focused on the wrong thing: man. Welch, himself a Ph.D. recipient in counseling psychology chooses to focus on God's Word as the source of truth and understanding regarding the nature of man. His basic concept is that man is created to bring glory to God and in saying this notes that God has designed us with certain "needs" or "desires" that are to be fulfilled by God Himself. The problem arises, according to Welch, when we replace the proverbial God-shaped vacuum in our lives with temporal things of this world that are not only unable to satisfy our longings, but in fact prohibit God from being able to! As man turns to self for "actualitization," he finds that his highest purpose doesn't really supply meaning or significance. Only in a proper relationship with God through the sanctifying work of Christ on the cross can man truly understand his true nature and true self.
Ultimately, Welch argues, the problem with man is low esteem for his Creator. If we truly lived before an Audience of One, Welch believes that many of our daily "problems" would be solved with a proper perspective - we would see ourselves in a proper light and we would see that we are not the source of that light, but created to be the reflectors of it to others.
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