A Word from Bob: You’re reading Part 9 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
Most of us have a tendency toward pulling pendulums in one direction or the other. This was true of the Corinthians.
In 1 Corinthians 5:1-5, Paul had to confront the Corinthians because they were not confronting the public sin of a member of the body of Christ. They were “winking at sin,” minimizing sin, and refusing to use biblical discernment, judgment, and confrontation regarding sin.
Then the Corinthians responded to Paul’s confrontation by confronting this brother.
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