The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 1999
Overview
For nearly 30 years, the Journal of Biblical Counseling (previously the Journal of Pastoral Practice) of CCEF (the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation) has provided a forum for biblical counseling’s development and application. The journal’s mission is to develop clear thinking and effective practice in biblical counseling through articles that faithfully bring the God of truth, mercy, and power to the issues faced by ministries of counseling and discipleship.
Top Highlights
“Conversely, he describes connection with God as the belief that ‘He is that good.’ The implication is that sin is essentially a diminished view of God’s goodness, a failure to believe God is capable of satisfying our desires. But sin is not simply a diminished or misinformed view of God; it is hatred of God. The Bible doesn’t describe people as misdirected searchers but rather as rebels whose very desire is for life apart from God.” (Page 55)
“His view is that although Christians are still sinners, and therefore a battleground of both ‘good and bad urges,’ we are fundamentally good because God has given us a new nature in Christ.” (Page 54)
“It means the difference between whether I will love others out of the fullness of Christ or, instead, look to others to mediate Him to me.” (Page 56)
“Crabb’s experientially rich descriptions of connecting dangerously make the experience of intimacy the goal rather than our often difficult, straightforward, duty to love. Again, this distinction may seem trifling and subtle, but it means the difference between training people to love and training people to seek after an experience of intimacy.” (Page 56)
“He states, ‘We have elevated psychological and personal problems to a position of top priority and, in so doing, have relegated the battle of relating well with God to secondary status, important in its own right and sometimes useful in the fight against our personal struggles, but certainly not our most vital and immediately pressing concern’” (Page 54)
- Title: The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 1999
- Author: David Powlison
- Series: The Journal of Biblical Counseling
- Publisher: The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Counseling › Practice; Pastoral counseling › Practice; Pastoral theology
- Resource ID: LLS:JBC17_3
- Resource Type: Journal
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