A Word from Bob: My latest book released last week—Consider Your Counsel. My publisher, New Growth Press, asked me a series of questions about the book—check out my thoughts below. If you want to grow as a biblical counselor, you can purchase Consider Your Counsel for 25% off here.
Q: There are many biblical counseling books available for counselors. What makes Consider Your Counsel unique?
Because this book addresses common mistakes, everything about it is unique. Other books highlight what the biblical counselor should do well. This book highlights patterns of what we tend to do poorly—and then addresses how to correct those mistakes.
Having supervised biblical counselors for almost three decades, and being someone who “thinks in themes,” I see Consider Your Counsel to be like “supervision by writing.”
Each chapter briefly addresses a common mistake—illustratively. Then each chapter emphasizes what to do instead—what does it look like to counsel well and wisely?
Additionally, each chapter ends with four self-assessment questions. Readers can readily assess their strengths and weaknesses. The biblical counseling movement talks about self-counsel. This book provides the tools to do self-supervision.
Q: Why write a book looking at the negatives? What was the driving motivation that
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