A blog about Biblical Counseling, Spiritual Disciplines and living a Scripture-shaped life
Five things that biblical counseling is not and five things that it is:
Biblical counseling is not:
Using the Bible as a magic formula/prescription.
Some people think biblical counseling equals doling out Bible verses and passages like a doctor gives prescriptions: take this and you will feel better [...]
I recently listened to a presentation with this title given by Steve Viars, pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lafayatte, Ind., at the 2002 National Association of Neuthetic Counselors (NANC) conference.
NoutheteĊ is a Greek word meaning, “the training by the word, whether of encouragement, or, if necessary, by reproof” (”An Expository Dictionary of New Testament [...]