The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 1995
Overview
For nearly 30 years, the Journal of Biblical Counseling (previously the Journal of Pastoral Practice) of CCEF (the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation) has provided a forum for biblical counseling’s development and application. The journal’s mission is to develop clear thinking and effective practice in biblical counseling through articles that faithfully bring the God of truth, mercy, and power to the issues faced by ministries of counseling and discipleship.
Top Highlights
“People who are ‘addicted’ to pornography aren’t so much addicted to lurid material as they’re addicted to self-centeredness.” (Page 8)
“The biblical position is that there is a creation order for human sexuality. God’s ordained design for sexual relationships is male-female. Homosexual acts and homosexual desire, by either male or female, are a violation of this creation ordinance and are thus sinful. As such, the church must warn and rebuke those who call themselves Christians but persist in homosexual practice, and the church must actively teach that homosexual affection is sinful. It can never suggest that there is a morally neutral, constitutional, homosexual orientation. To plead with those struggling with homosexual desire to simply refrain from acting on their desire would be to sin against these brothers and sisters.” (Page 24)
“People start out in what I call a ‘baseline comfort zone’ in the way they deal with their own sin. God says that the nature of sin is such that as we continue to sin and quench the Spirit, as we continue to sear our consciences, what was originally a very uncomfortable thing to do becomes comfortable. We begin to drift as we compromise. Sexual sin often starts as a terrible, anxiety-provoking experience. But because of our lust, our desire, our heart set against God, after a while this reaction fades. We are in a new comfort zone. And after awhile, if we do not repent, we drift even further.” (Page 9)
“God plans sexuality to be an expression of oneness, any form of sexual perversion is also a perversion of God’s plan of intimacy. Whether you counsel a person whose sexual behavior makes you physically ill or someone with ‘garden variety’ sexual problems in marriage, the problems always go back to intimacy and the root of God’s intention for sexuality. Genesis 2:18 (‘It is not good for the man to be alone’) means that your most basic counseling intervention is to teach this person to die to self and to love others more than himself or herself.” (Page 8)
- Title: The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 1995
- Author: David Powlison
- Series: The Journal of Biblical Counseling
- Publisher: The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Counseling › Practice; Pastoral counseling › Practice; Pastoral theology
- Resource ID: LLS:JBC13_3
- Resource Type: Journal
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