Gospel-Centered Counseling: How Christ Changes Lives
Overview
How do we cultivate a truly biblical ministry? Just what is the personal ministry of the Word? Gospel-Centered Counseling answers questions like these, and equips readers to change lives with changeless truth. Bob Kellemen examines life’s ultimate questions, and then guides readers on a journey that explores the biblical narrative of creation, fall, and redemption. Kellemen builds on the foundation of the written Word and provides a gospel-centered resource for understanding people, diagnosing problems, and prescribing biblically-based solutions.
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- Offers counseling training for lay leaders and students
- Examines life’s biggest questions through the narrative of creation, fall, and redemption
- Provides gospel-centered resources for understanding people and their challenges
- Mining the Richness of God’s Word: God’s Treasures of Wisdom
- Discovering Wisdom for Life in a Broken World: Our Treasure Hunt for Wisdom
- Knowing the Creator of the Soul: Our Great Soul Physician
- Recognizing the Most Important Fact about Us: Our View of God
- Engaging the Battle for Our Soul: Our Spiritual Warfare in Spiritual Friendship
- Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul: Our View of People
- Journeying into the Heart: Our Role as Soul Physicians and Biblical Cardiologists
- Exploring Serpentine Seduction to Sin: Our Spiritual Adultery
- Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Our Fallen Heart
- Applying the Gospel to Suffering: Our Gospel-Centered Self-Counsel
- Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul: Part 1, Our New Nurture
- Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul: Part 2, Our New Nature
- Finding a Place to Belong and Become: Our Growth in Grace Is a Community Journey
- Remembering the Future: Our Eternal Perspective
- Dispensing Grace: Our Gospel-Centered Growth in Grace
- Putting Off and Putting On: God’s Heart Change Model of Progressive Sanctification
- Conclusion: Living Life Empowered by Christ’s Changeless Gospel Truth
Top Highlights
“To view the Bible accurately and use the Bible competently, we must understand the Bible’s story the way God tells it—as a gospel victory narrative.” (Page 36)
“How does Jesus change people? By dealing with life’s ultimate question—‘What comes into our mind when we think about God?’ Jesus changes us by changing our very nature (regeneration), which changes our view of God, which in turn changes our identity in Christ. Before Paul ever mentions the gospel imperatives (commands about how to live like Christ), he provides gospel indicatives (what has already happened through the grace of our triune God), and he highlights gospel identity (who we are in Christ), which leads to gospel increase (the fruit of maturing Christlikeness).” (Page 62)
“Secular psychology begins with us—who are we? Biblical counseling begins before the beginning with our triune God—who is God and what difference does he make in how we perceive and live life in a broken world?” (Page 54)
“To know the God of peace and the peace of God we must know our triune God in the fullness of his holy love demonstrated in the cross of Christ.” (Page 80)
“Two hallmarks of the modern biblical counseling movement have always been the sufficiency of Scripture and progressive sanctification.” (Page 19)
I love this book and the gospel that is so beautifully portrayed here where the rubber meets the road, in our daily lives, in our struggle to believe and to live in the light of all he’s done. What a blessing!
—Elyse Fitzpatrick, author, Give Them Grace
Gospel-Centered Counseling is a ‘must-have’ as you seek to care for and equip others to minister with the gospel as a church.
—Robert K. Cheong, pastor of care, Sojourn Community Church, Louisville, KY
Full of rich biblical insight and examples from Bob’s many years of pastoral and biblical counseling ministry, Gospel-Centered Counseling will benefit anyone who longs to help others live with joyful fidelity to our triune God.
—Michael R. Emlet, faculty and counselor, Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
- Title: Gospel-Centered Counseling: How Christ Changes Lives
- Authors: Bob Kellemen, Deepak Reju
- Series: Equipping Biblical Counselors
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- Subjects: Counseling › Religious aspects--Christianity; Bible › Psychology
- ISBNs: 9780310527039, 9780310516132, 0310527031, 0310516137
- Resource ID: LLS:9780310516149
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:42:03Z
Bob Kellemen is the vice president of institutional development and chair of the biblical counseling and discipleship department at Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, IN, and the founder and CEO of RPM Ministries. He is the author of over 100 published articles and several books, including Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, Equipping Counselors for Your Church, Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure, Sexual Abuse: Beauty for Ashes, and Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling.