A Word from Bob: You’re reading Part 10 of a 10-part blog series on 10 Common Mistakes Biblical Counselors Sometimes Make.
Mistake #1: We Elevate Data Collection Above Soul Connection. Mistake #2: We Share God’s Eternal Story Before We Listen Well and Wisely to Our Friend’s Earthly Story. Mistake #3: We Talk at Counselees Rather Than Exploring Scriptures with Counselees. Mistake #4: We Practice Half-Biblical Counseling If We Address Sin but Neglect Suffering. Mistake #5: We Fail to Follow the Trinity’s Model of Comforting Care. Mistake #6: We Tend to View People One-Dimensionally. Mistake #7: We Devalue Emotions Rather Than Seeing Emotions as God’s Idea. Mistake #8: We Minimize the Complexity of the Soul-Body Interconnection. Mistake #9: We Maximize Sin While We Minimize Grace. Mistake #10: We Confuse the Sufficiency of Scripture with the Competency of the Counselor
Today’s title—with words like “sufficiency” and “competency”—may seem like the most “technical” of these ten mistakes. However, this final topic may be one of the most practical.
I was recently contacted by a lay biblical counselor (let’s call him Jim) who was just beginning his MA degree in Biblical Counseling. Jim was approached by a man who was hearing voices,
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