When it comes to helping persons in the counseling room, Christians who want to provide care must make several important choices about what care looks like before they can help someone. Their answers to these ever-important questions will help shape not only their care of the persons that are coming in for help but will put their entire lives on a unique trajectory. Some of the most important questions that a Biblical counselor must answer are: What is the role of the Scriptures? What does the sufficiency of Scripture really mean? What is the role of the Spirit in the counseling process? What is the role and shaper of progressive sanctification? Finally, (although there are many more questions) what is the goal of counseling? In this series of posts, I would like for us to consider how Biblical Counseling answers this important question and where it may differ from other forms of care that is practiced in the Christian community.
For the Biblical counselor, everything centers on the question of the sufficiency and authority of Scripture. David Powlison, in his essay, “Cure of Souls (and Modern Psychotherapies)” laid out a helpful way of thinking about the all-important question of the
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