Types of People: How to Counsel Them Biblically
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Each counselee is different from the last one. Is your counselee shy, or lazy, or vivacious, or critical, or polite, or bored, or jealous, or...? These types of attitudes and actions should be taken into account as you counsel and may actually be part of the problem that brought him to you (or possibly part of the solution). This book takes a brief look at many attitudes or actions from a Biblical perspective. Shining the light of God’s Word, it encourages the pastor or counselor to ponder such questions as—Is this just her personality or is it a sinful lifestyle? Does God's Word have anything to say about it?
- Explores the process of pre-counseling
- Encourages counselors to ponder common questions related to personality
- Provides a brief look at many attitudes or actions from a Biblical perspective
- Anxious to Cooperate
- Shy
- Interested, but Uncertain
- Counselors
- Lazy and Indifferent
- Disorganized and Undisciplined
- Stubborn
- Complainers and Whiners
- Critical
- Judgmental
- Envious, Jealous, and Bitter
- Wordy
- Overly Casual
- Hasty
- Self-Assured
- Glib
- Vivacious
- Vacillators
- Polite
- Bored
- Idiosyncratic
- Small-Souled
- Contentious
- Conniving
- Confused
- Silent
- Intellectual
Top Highlights
“A lazy person’s attitude is a foolish state of mind that causes him to avoid the expenditure of effort. A counselee may give you bogus reasons (excuses) for his behavior in an attempt to escape doing anything that even smells like work. These ploys will often become evident when you explain to him that the only way out of some dilemma is by exerting various efforts to change. A lazy state of mind, given time to work itself out in all of life, may so engulf a counselee that he will abandon even simple, necessary functions.” (Pages 23–24)
“To be indifferent is to be distanced in one’s attitude from the object, topic, or person considered not worth giving it the time of day.” (Page 26)
“The danger in all complaining, then, is simply this: people think, ‘God could have arranged things differently, but he didn’t—and I don’t like it!’” (Page 39)
“One thing both the indifferent and the lazy have in common is the self-destructive nature of their attitudes.” (Page 29)
“irresponsible and unreasonable unwillingness against overwhelming evidence to admit that he is wrong” (Page 35)
- Title: Types of People: How to Counsel Them Biblically
- Author: Jay E. Adams
- Publisher: Institute for Nouthetic Studies
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 114
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Pastoral counseling; Biblical counseling
- ISBNs: 9781889032672, 1889032670
- Resource ID: LLS:TYPSPPLTBBLCLLY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:35:37Z
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.