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Transformative Encounters: The Intervention of God in Christian Counseling and Pastoral Care is unavailable, but you can change that!

What would it mean for Christian counseling and pastoral care to take seriously the idea that God intervenes in the world? What would it look like for therapists and pastors to see themselves as opening the door to a miraculous divine encounter? How would counseling change if the intervention of God was not merely a theoretical idea but a lived experience? Building on Gary Collins's classic work,...

pastors, church staff, clinical practitioners, academics and students-in-training the best work of those who are doing this kind of Christ-centered ministry—inviting God to step into the helping or ministry endeavor in a way that works miraculous change. We set out to find practitioners who faithfully expect God to show up in the midst of their counseling or pastoral care, helpers who rely on God to intervene in the life of the client, regardless of both their clinical theory or helping model, and
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