Isn’t it odd that some Christians in the mental health field act like The Gospel has no place in the counseling office?
The Gospel is good news for every person who chooses to trust Christ and accept the gift He offers: new life in Him. Life change happens when the broken begin living for God rather than self. The Gospel becomes personal, leading to peace and contentment in every circumstance.
This article addresses whether biblical counseling is a viable (or even better) alternative than secular counseling.
Many years ago, as I headed to an ACBC conference in California, I reflected on this article in Pacific Standard magazine. Quite a few people had asked me for my thoughts on it. The article gives an outsider’s perspective on the strengths and weakness of biblical counseling, though slanted in favor of secular counseling.
Overall, the piece was fairly objective, well-written, and reasonable. However, it proposes many arguments that critics of biblical counseling have spent decades advancing and biblical counseling proponents have been seeking to answer. These arguments and the proponents of biblical counseling are not going away anytime soon.
So, how do we answer the critics interviewed by Kathryn Joyce, who wrote the Pacific
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