The Case of the Hopeless Marriage: A Nouthetic Counseling Case from Beginning to End
Overview
You’ve heard about Nouthetic Counseling, and wondered what it’s like. People have told you all sorts of things—were they correct? Now you have the opportunity to judge for yourself. What you couldn’t do before, you now can do—peek behind the closed door to see how a typical counseling case—from beginning to end—is conducted.
- Presents a look into the practice of Nouthetic Counseling
- Provides a composite of marriage counseling sessions
- Examines issues of marital conflict
Top Highlights
“A prime principle that you both need to learn is to sort out your responsibilities. You must do what you do, not because of how others respond, but because you want to please God. You are responsible for your own actions.” (Page 18)
“We must do it to please God, not to get some result out of another. Nor should we try to excuse ourselves on the basis that someone else isn’t assuming his responsibilities.” (Page 122)
“But if you’re doing it to please Jesus, that makes a great deal of difference. You’ve got no quarrel with Him!” (Page 35)
“You must do what God requires whether or not anyone else does what he should.” (Page 122)
“If a home lacks love, therefore, that’s the husband’s fault” (Page 16)
- Title: The Case of the “Hopeless” Marriage: A Nouthetic Counseling Case from Beginning to End
- Author: Jay E. Adams
- Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 142
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Marital conflict › Case studies; Pastoral counseling; Counseling › Case studies
- ISBNs: 9781889032528, 1889032522
- Resource ID: LLS:CSHPLSSMRRG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:02:35Z
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.