Waiting for the repairman. The washer just went out—water on the floor! Too bad, but this reminds me that counselors are repairmen too. Counseling has positive results—when it’s biblical and it’s followed, of course. But fundamentally, even biblical counseling is nothing more than repair work. The counselor is a repairman, par excellence. We are quite …
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If it were up to you to determine what your pastor should do, what would it be? “Care for the people? Preach interesting sermons? Baptize, marry and bury people?” Can you think of anything else? “Not really.” How about what Paul said in Ephesians 4:12, where he outlined the principal reason for the gift of …
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There are counselors who misuse God’s Word. That isn’t to say that they intend to do so—though some, with but a mere twinge of conscience, may use a passage to say what he knows it doesn’t say. But, either way, we find Scripture being forced into contexts in which it does not belong, being used …
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That’s a pretty good description of many people in the world today, and increasingly, it may also be said of portions of the American scene. Why? Why the anarchistic attitudes of so many? Why that attitude of some (in a milder way, of course) even in a milquetoast church? Proverbs 29:18a in the Holman Christian …
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I suppose you would say that there are two views of how to do it—Now, wait a minute, I’m not talking about all of the various ways in which one might frame a sermon. Nor am I getting into the biblical theology controversy, though there’s plenty to say about it! There is only one thing …
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