Isn’t it? When you think about it, there has been more than enough time for those integrationist Christian organizations to have gotten together on at least a few essentials and declared “this is it,” hasn’t there? They’ve been working at it ever since the days of Clyde Narramore when he wrote his failed attempt in his Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling. Ever since, organizations have blossomed, conferences without number have been held, meetings have been taken place, books by the tons have been written, and yet everyone is still “searching” for that system of Christian counseling that surely is “out there”—somewhere. But no one has found it . . .except a few of us who think that we have. It’s a system called Nouthetic Counseling—if you want a name for it. The name (though appropriate) is unnecessary—except for identification purposes—the concepts on which it is based are not.
Nouthetic counseling is biblically-based, seeks to be faithful to the principles of Scripture which are integrated with one another (not with extraneous materials), and formed into a practical system designed to help Christians who have become stymied in their spiritual growth to be able to overcome the obstacles (whether self-imposed or otherwise) that
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