The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 2002
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
“Because such a secular biomedical model can only ‘see’ the somatic component since it has no category of ‘heart-soul,’ it must assign a biological causation and (usually) mandate a biological cure for the counselee’s problems. The body-brain is the problem.” (Page 50)
“Robust biblical counseling must walk the tightrope of acknowledging real somatic influences while rejecting any worldview that minimizes the coram deo aspect of living, as expressed in obedience to the first and second Great Commandments. Put another way, faith and repentance never occur in a vacuum, but are expressed in the midst of the unique bodily pressures that provoke the heart.” (Page 50)
“Love is doing whatever you have to do at whatever cost to yourself in order to help another person stop finding pleasure in being made much of and help them get to the mature, God-exalting, Christ-besotted, joyfully self-sacrificing, self-forgetting delight in making much of God for the sake of others.” (Page 13)
“‘Biblical counseling is God-centered, Bible-saturated, emotionally in-touch use of language to help people become God-besotted, Christ-exalting, joyfully self-forgetting lovers of people.’” (Page 8)
“Each book of the Bible targets a specific audience in a specific situation at a particular point in redemptive history. The truth of the gospel is not ministered into a relational-sociocultural vacuum, but it is done with an acute awareness of the multiplicity of challenges that press the hearts of God’s people to respond in either obedience or disobedience.” (Page 51)
- Title: The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 2002
- Author: David Powlison
- Series: The Journal of Biblical Counseling
- Publisher: The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Counseling › Practice; Pastoral counseling › Practice; Pastoral theology
- Resource ID: LLS:JBC20_2
- Resource Type: Journal
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