If there is anything that needs correcting among Christians in general, and Christian counselors in particular, it is their use of poor terminology. When I say “poor terminology” I am not thinking of shoddy or pornographic language. I’m speaking of misidentifying truth by using language that belies biblical truth.
The world has been working at eroding language over the years. Today, with the advent of the feminist, and the politically correct movements, the process has been greatly accelerated. Bad as the destruction of language that these movements has caused, perhaps even worse is the way that jargon—particularly the jargon that flows from the psychiatric world—has negatively affected speech. And thought!
I say, “and thought!” not as an after-thought. I placed it alone to call attention to it. Why? Because all speech affects thought. Thought affects living. Living affects relationships with God and with man. That is the point at issue. It isn’t only that we think in words. Concepts coupled with attitudes are formed by hearing certain terms over and over again. What we hear often enough we are apt to believe, (Remember Hitler’s “Big Lie?”). Especially, if we have been listening to ourselves say it.
Let’s take an example.
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