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An Introduction to Counseling that Counts - Dying to Live
An Introduction to Counseling that Counts - Dying to Live Author:Bob Smith No one has to be convinced these days that the whole world needs wise counsel. Psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family counselors have more patients than they can handle. — Is God unaware and uncaring about such widespread human hurt and heartache, or have we Christians missed it? — Bob Smith is convinced it's the latter. We haven't paid... more » enough attention to God's Word on the subject of mental health, and we've been too ready to believe that counseling is only for the "pros," the psychologists and the psychiatrists. Even pastors have the feeling that it's a specialty for which they are largely incompetent although they are often called upon it.
But, says Pastor Smith, if we dare to take seriously what the Bible says, we come up with a different answer: Not only professionals, but all Christians should be able to counsel, with confidence. And can, for "counselling" is really too formalized a word for what God expects us to do.
"Dying to Live" is a practical handbook detailing the Christian's qualifications and resources for engaging in the counseling ministry. It explains how to proceed, step by step, employing the Bible for scriptual solutions to specific counseling problems and an overview of operating principles. It looks at what sin is and how it affects our wholeness.
It reveals why the Christian has the only authentic key to mental health - a "therapy of redemptive truth" - and it shows how, by identifying with Christ, not Adam - by dying to live - every one of us can open the door to satisfying personal fulfillment. "Spiritual well-being and psychological stability are the heritage of every Christian," declares Bob Smith, "subject to delivery on demand as we walk by faith."« less