The Will Spencer Podcast PASTOR MATTHEW STATLER - Trauma, Suffering, and Counterfeit Healing: Psychedelics & the Gospel
Pastor Matthew Statler is an Army veteran with four Iraq deployments, a former cavalry scout, and a biblical counselor who knows the trauma system from the inside. After years of PTSD diagnoses, alcoholism, and failed therapeutic models, Matthew encountered a biblical theology of suffering that radically transformed his life.
In this conversation, we confront the rise of the “Trauma Mindset” as a counterfeit gospel — one that dissolves responsibility, cannot handle guilt or shame, and increasingly turns to psychedelics as a false path to healing and revelation.
We explore why Scripture offers a deeper, more honest account of suffering than modern psychology, how psychedelics function as a pseudo-sacrament, and why true healing requires repentance, endurance, and hope in Christ rather than therapeutic escape.
This is a serious conversation for men seeking clarity, strength, and a worldview capable of bearing real suffering.
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Pastor Matthew Statler
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Substack: https://matthewstatler.substack.com
Sierra Vista Baptist Church: https://sierravista.church
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