{"id":27197,"date":"2020-11-23T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27197"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:18:28","slug":"a-review-of-saints-sufferers-and-sinners-by-mike-emlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27197","title":{"rendered":"A Review of Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners by Mike Emlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/0_2021_Saints_Sufferers_and_Sinners_50-1.jpg\"><\/a>Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners: Loving Others As God Loves Us<\/em> by Dr. Mike Emlet (New Growth Press, January 2021) is one of the most important and helpful counseling books since the launch of the biblical counseling movement half-a-century ago. As a writer-practitioner, it\u2019s sometimes difficult to be \u201ccomprehensively compassionate.\u201d You want to say everything, yet you want to balance depth with practicality. Mike Emlet eminently succeeds in being \u201cbiblical-practical\u201d in <em>Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners<\/em>. If you want comprehensive and compassionate equipping in one-another care, then this is the book for you.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>A Three-Fold Trellis<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Writing in the 1960s, British Christian psychiatrist Frank Lake noted that, \u201cPastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have <em>suffered<\/em> as well as with the <em>sins <\/em>we have committed\u201d (<em>Clinical Theology<\/em>, p. 25). Lake\u2019s model is a predecessor to the common designation in modern biblical counseling of Christians as <em>saints<\/em> who face <em>suffering<\/em> and fight against <em>sin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Emlet takes these three concepts (saints, sufferers, sinners) and develops them as three foundational and biblical ways of understanding and ministering to friends, family members, and counselees. As Emlet describes it, \u201cScripture gives us a kind of trellis\u2014a basic structure\u2014on which love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners is one of the most important and helpful counseling books since the launch of the modern biblical counseling movement.<br \/>\nThe post A Review of Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners by Mike Emlet appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[145,468,3277],"class_list":["post-27197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-book-review","tag-emlet","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/0_2021_Saints_Sufferers_and_Sinners_50-1-1.jpg?fit=825%2C1275&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27206,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197\/revisions\/27206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}