How Do You Help a “Psychologized” Church?
I recently read a guest blog post by Rob Rodriguez at Jonathan Okinaga’s Soul Care Network site. Rob blogged about How Do You Help a “Psychologized” Church?
Here’s the gist of Rob’s article. He was seeking to lead a biblical counseling ministry in a church where many, including the senior pastor, were not necessarily aligned with a biblical counseling mindset. Here’s a noteworthy quote from Rob’s article:
“At our church, our senior pastor not too long ago gave a sermon recounting his experience with anxiety and stress, and his journey in seeking the guidance of “mental-health” professionals and medication. He openly admitted they helped. I cringed through the entire message.”
Thus the title of my post today: When Biblical Counselors and Their Church Don’t See Eye-to-Eye. Or, to state it in question form: What do we do when not everyone in our church aligns with biblical counseling? As someone who has spent four decades equipping churches to become churches of biblical counseling, and not just a church with biblical counseling, this is quite the relevant issue for me.
So, I read with interest Rob’s approach. Some of it resonated with me. Some of
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