Compassionate Counseling
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
If the people who are closest to you were polled, would they choose compassionate as a word that describes you? In the Bible, God sets forth a picture of the estate of sin and misery that all men are in but then proclaims the remarkable way in which He has shown compassion upon human beings by providing a way out of their misery through Jesus Christ. (I Corinthians 10: 13). Sometimes biblical counselors are (falsely) accused of lacking compassion. But they should recognize that, above all else, they must counsel in God's presence in ways that honor Him. Therefore they must compassionately counsel people who come to them suffering from the ravages of sin. Compassion can be studied, understood, encouraged, and directed, but it cannot be generated. It is my hope that this book may assist you in bringing about that inner visceral concern for others that insists upon helping them.
- Explores the importance of compassion in counseling
- Addresses the place of compassion in Nouthetic counseling
- Helps counselors develop concern for others that insists upon helping them
- Compassionate Counseling
- Compassion is Needed
- A Case in Point
- Compassion, Sympathy, and Empathy
- One Form Compassion May Take
- Compassion is Not Acceptance
- Compassionate Teaching
- Another Side to Compassion in Teaching
- Are You Moved?
- “How Do I Get it?”
- Jesus’ Compassion
- Compassion isn’t Optional
- The Good Samaritan
- Compassion in Conflict
- Philemon’s Compassion
- How God Uses Compassion
- When Compassion is Wrong
- When Compassion is Withheld
- Compassion for Those Who Minister
- Compassion for Brothers in Extremities
- The Cost of Compassion
- Compassion for Animals?
- What Compassion Does for Counseling
Top Highlights
“True compassion involves taking the time to learn what God has to say about human difficulties and how He expects us to confront them.” (Page 3)
“Compassion, therefore, enters into a problem more deeply than the sufferer himself.” (Page 14)
“No, acceptance is not compassionate. It is just the opposite” (Page 23)
“pity is the feeling one senses upon recognizing the plight of another” (Page 10)
“their failure to respond to wrong rightly—that is to say, biblically” (Page 7)
- Title: Compassionate Counseling
- Author: Jay E. Adams
- Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 94
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Pastoral counseling; Counseling › Religious aspects--Christianity; Caring › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781889032597, 188903259X
- Resource ID: LLS:CMPSSNTCNSLNG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:50:18Z
Jay E. Adams A.B., B.D., S.T.M., Ph.D. (1929-2020) served as a pastor, church planter, denominational executive, seminary professor, author, and lecturer. He taught homiletics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and was the Director of Advanced Studies at Westminster Seminary in California. He was the founder of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF), the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (formerly NANC), and the Institute for Nouthetic Studies (INS). He was the author of over 100 books including the best seller Competent to Counsel which launched the modern biblical counseling movement. He was the recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor awarded by the State of South Carolina.