Ready to Restore: An Introductory Guide to Biblical Counseling, 2nd ed.

by Jay E. Adams

Publisher:

P&R

, 2021

Overview

This accessible introductory volume brings Jay Adams’s counseling expertise to ordinary Christians who want to counsel peers in need. Redesigned for its fortieth anniversary and celebrating more than 60,000 copies sold, this edition includes updated lists of critical resources.

Contents

• Who Should Counsel?
• Goals, Attitudes, and Dangers
• What Is Counseling?
• Ready to Restore
• What about Unbelievers?
• The Counseling Process
• Twenty-Five Basic Principles
• Discipline: A Two-Edged Sword
• Help on Data Gathering
• A Biblical Analysis of the Problem
• Finding the Biblical Solution
• Implementing a Biblical Plan
• Follow-Through: Working the Plan
• Using Homework
• Problems Frequently Faced
• How to Grow as a Counselor
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: The Personal Data Inventory
• Appendix B: The Counselor’s Topical Worklist

Praise for the Print Edition

Returns counseling to laymen and women who are well-schooled in biblical hermeneutics, theology, and discipleship. It has all the foundational ideas that make biblical counseling effective.

—John D. Street, Chair of the Graduate Department of Biblical Counseling, The Master’s University and Seminary

A very readable small book that will help you to cut your teeth on the basics of biblical counseling.

—Lou Priolo, Pastor of Counseling, Christ Covenant, Atlanta

The mainstay of many lay counseling training programs since it was first published.

—Jim Berg, Professor of Biblical Counseling, Bob Jones University

Product Details

• Title: Ready to Restore: An Introductory Guide to Biblical Counseling
• Author: Jay E. Adams
• Edition: New edition
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 160
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Peer counseling in the church
• ISBNs: 9781629959368, 9781629950112, 1629959367, 1629950114
• Resource ID: LLS:RDYRSTRNCNS2NDD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:37:54Z

About Jay E. Adams

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.

Sample Pages from Ready to Restore: An Introductory Guide to Biblical Counseling, 2nd ed.