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As these worldview distinctives compose a kind of creed about biblical counseling, these ten statements<\/strong> are helpful in defining our understanding of counseling ministry.<\/p>\n BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n A biblical understanding of people<\/em> is essential to biblical counseling<\/strong>, seeing human nature as composed of inner person and outer person, these constantly joined and interdependent, with the inner person being dominant.<\/p>\n Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man. (Matthew 15:17-20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So we pray for heart transformation, not behavioral modification. We are not interested in producing moralistic people, but people whose hearts have been captured and filled by the Spirit of God and are learning to find all their joy and satisfaction in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n THE CENTRALITY OF WORSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n Worship<\/em> is natural and unavoidable in human life; worship happens in the hearts of all people, everywhere, and all the time. God created us to worship.<\/strong> God created us with capacity to worship. God calls us and recreates us in order for us to enjoy and offer pure worship.<\/p>\n Look at Paul\u2019s train of thought in Colossians 3:1-5. Since we have died with Christ and our lives are \u201chidden with Christ in God,\u201d and since we will be \u201crevealed with Him in glory,\u201d we should consider ourselves dead to the various forms of false worship he lists in verse 5, in order to \u201cput on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge.\u201d (Colossians 3:10)<\/p>\n Listen to how Paul confronted those who tried to worship the apostles at Lystra. \u201cMen, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God.\u201d (Acts 14:15)<\/p>\n THE CHURCH<\/strong><\/p>\n The Church<\/em> is \u201cthe organism\u201d that our Lord has redeemed, established, composed, commissioned, and enabled to spread the gospel and apply His abundant gifts to bring about radical change in the hearts of His people to the glory of His grace (Ephesians 4:11-16).<\/p>\n For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:2-3)<\/p>\n Counseling one another toward deeper devotion to Jesus Christ has always been apart of our devotion to Jesus Christ. Our gratitude for his love and our love for him compels us to speak of him and introduce others to him and counsel others to abide in him.<\/p>\n BIBLICAL LOVE<\/strong><\/p>\n Counsel that flows from God is always expressed in love, \u201cfor God is love.\u201d (I John 4:8b) By love, I mean joyfully self-sacrificing for the eternal good of others and the glory of God<\/em>. Paul understood the importance of biblical love as an outworking of biblical faith, \u201cIf I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.\u201d (I Corinthians 13:1) He helps us understand the nature of biblical love.<\/p>\n Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.\u201d (I Corinthians 13:4-8a)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cLove is patient\u201d \u2013 It remains steadfast in troubled times and circumstances. When we care for another person, we try not to rush them toward perfection, criticizing them with every failure. Love accepts the longevity and difficulty of the Christian life.<\/p>\n Love is \u201ckindhearted\u201d \u2013 That is, love is charitable. It is generous with time, energy, emotion, money, or whatever resources may be needed to care for others.<\/p>\n Love \u201cis not jealous\u201d \u2013 it puts aside rivalry, resentment, and lust for victory. We don\u2019t contend with people for the sake of winning, or being right. It also means we serve others for their true good, not for us to possess and use them.<\/p>\n Love \u201cdoes not brag and is not arrogant\u201d \u2013 Love refuses to exalt itself.<\/p>\n Love \u201cdoes not act unbecomingly\u201d \u2013 In other words, we act in a manner befitting the title, \u201cchildren of God.\u201d (John 1:12b; I John 3:1b)<\/p>\n Love \u201cdoes not seek its own\u201d \u2013 We don\u2019t seek first our own personal interests, but the interests of others (Philippians 2:4) When we love God, we seek His glory rather than our own.<\/p>\n Love \u201cis not provoked\u201d \u2013 This means we are willing to bear patiently with difficult human relationships \u2013 neither easily angered nor prone to quit in frustration.<\/p>\n Love \u201cdoes not take into account a wrong suffered\u201d \u2013 it doesn\u2019t hold grudges, return evil for evil, and respond to others from resentment and spite.<\/p>\n Love \u201cdoes not rejoice in unrighteousness.\u201d \u2013 We grieve sin. We don\u2019t rejoice in it. We mourn our own sin rather than revel in it.<\/p>\n Love \u201crejoices with the truth\u201d \u2013 God exists and speaks in truth. He hates falsehood.<\/p>\n Love \u201cbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, \u201cLove never fails.\u201d True love never ends. The one who truly loves is willing to persevere in love, unable to cease their affection, because the Spirit of God works strongly within his or her heart.<\/p>\n THE HOLY SPIRIT<\/strong><\/p>\n The Holy Spirit<\/em> is the Person<\/em> who brings about good life transformation. He opens blind eyes, softens hearts to receive the message of Christ crucified and resurrected, and compels our sanctification. He is our Helper, the One who comforts us in affliction, seals us, teaches us, and brings us to repentance. The Spirit grows our faith and conforms us into the image of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. (2 Cor. 3:18)<\/p>\n The more we see and marvel at the glory of Jesus Christ in the Scripture, the more the Holy Spirit conforms us to His image. He helps us understand, believe, and obey the Word of God. He helps us counsel the Word in grace and truth. He helps us speak the truth in love (Eph. 4:15).<\/p>\n Since the Holy Spirit is the One who helps, convicts, and transforms us, counseling ministry should be full of prayer. When we are prayerful we prove how much we depend on the Lord for strength, comfort, and wisdom. We prove how little we think of our own ability, and much we rely upon the power of God.<\/p>\n A Biblical Counseling Worldview Part Two<\/strong> is part of the ABC\u2019s Equipped to Counsel Certification<\/a> certification program, which helps develop a biblical philosophy of counseling that emphasizes the call of all believers to take part in the work of counseling and discipleship.<\/em><\/p>\n The post A Biblical Counseling Worldview Part Two<\/a> appeared first on ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These five distinctives and ten statements of biblical counseling hopefully provide some structure and support for our biblical counseling worldview. In a previous post, we discussed particular truths and distinctions that make the biblical counseling worldview unique. This lesson continues that discussion by considering five distinctives of biblical counseling that hopefully provide some structure and…\n
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