“Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with their whole heart,
Who also do no wrong but walk in His ways!
You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
Your testimonies are my delight.
They are my counselors.”
Psalm 119: 2-4, 24
As biblical counselors, the inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word of God is foundational to the counsel we provide. One of the most practical ways we can hold high the sufficiency of Scripture is by inviting and empowering our counselees to read, comprehend, and apply it for themselves. As people of the Word, we should prioritize Bible literacy.
It is typically assumed that biblical counseling is a temporary form of intense discipleship for a time of increased trial or temptation, with the expectation that the counselor will eventually transition from bearing their counselee’s burdens to the counselee, by God’s grace, bearing their own (Galatians 6:1-5). Instruction in Bible literacy is no small part of this burden bearing transition process. If we fail to provide this instruction, our counselees may very well graduate from our care with a knowledge of the theological frameworks we’ve used in counseling without the ability to mine those same truths from Scripture
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