Imagine, if you will, a couple with an already difficult marriage that will now spend days on end with each other because one or both of them have to work from home. Picture a difficult or outright rebellious teenager who is stuck at home during hours when s/he would ordinarily be at school, and how that affects family dynamics. Consider people who may be struggling with discouragement or depression, and now find themselves alone, 24/7, day after day, and for how long? No one knows.
If you’re a biblical counselor in a local church, I’d be willing to bet you pictured actual names and faces with each of those scenarios. They’re not hypothetical. They’re actual people who need hope and help from God’s Word that you can give as a counselor. But, for the first time, we find ourselves in a situation where the best thing to do is not meet until the novel coronavirus pandemic is no more.
While we find ourselves in the most uncertain of times, biblical counseling is needed perhaps now more than ever. Although counselors can’t meet with counselees as we always have, in God’s kindness and providence, we live in a day and
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