The Journal of Pastoral Practice: Volume 9, Number 3, 1988
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
“Brooks sees problems as being largely due to doctrinal distortions, to unbelief, and lies that we believe about God and ourselves. Therefore, many of Brooks’ remedies are passionate scriptural arguments to be thrust forcibly and constantly into the consciousness against the lies which are dominating the heart.” (Page 19)
“There is a biblical view of man as a sufferer. We can say it even more plainly: there is a biblical view of man as a victim. Biblical counseling has been misunderstood repeatedly to say that all problems are a result of personal sin.” (Page 62)
“On the other hand, ‘spiritual mindedness’ is nothing more than a continual rehearsing and delighting in our privileges in Christ: access to the Father, sonship, an inheritance that cannot be lost, and our complete acceptance as well as our forensic righteousness before the Father. Believers receive power and boldness and joy to the degree that they grasp the reality of their standing in Christ. Spirit power comes from filling the mind with, reflecting on, and acting in accord with our position: a son, a temple of the Holy Spirit, a king seated and reigning.” (Page 36)
“Mortification is loosening sin at the motivational level, detecting the roots and shapes of one’s characteristic fleshly motives, and withering them through repentance until they loose their attractive power. To ‘mortify’ is ‘to take away the principle of all [its] strength, vigor, and power, so that [it] cannot act or exert, or put forth any proper actings of [its] own.’54 Mortification is not just the suppressing of the external action of sin, but it refers to the weakening of the root motives, the desires of the sin.” (Page 24)
- Title: The Journal of Pastoral Practice: Volume 9, Number 3, 1988
- Author: Jay E. Adams
- Edition: 3
- Series: The Journal of Biblical Counseling
- Volume: 9
- Publisher: The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
- Print Publication Date: 1988
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Counseling › Practice; Pastoral counseling › Practice; Pastoral theology
- Resource ID: LLS:JBC9_3
- Resource Type: Journal
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-16T17:45:30Z
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.