The degree to which the Christian who counsels holds to one counseling model or another, depends not so much upon background and training (though that certainly plays an important part) but more so as to how strongly that Christian views the authority of the Bible and its adequacy as a “Handbook” for the human mind. Otherwise, the individual’s Christian faith becomes merely a general format over which any given number of psychological concepts may be superimposed. This thought is poignantly illustrated
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