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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,...

with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength; and to love others as we love ourselves (Mt 22:37–40). Regarding the overarching process of growth, John the Baptist exclaimed what is so incredible in our narcissistic age: “He [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease” (Jn 3:30 NKJV). Peter also has his say in 1 Peter 5:5–7: “All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty
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