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The Christian Counselor’s Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author’s influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling: ·Who is qualified to be a counselor? ·How can counselees change? ·How does the Holy Spirit work? ·What role does hope play? ...

5. By noting an undue focus by the counselee upon himself. Self-pitying persons are absorbed in themselves, need to be shown that the world was not created for them personally, and that it is their pride and self-centeredness that lies at the root of their problems. His focus of concern must be turned from himself to God and to others. Apart from such a thorough repentance (change of mind) there is no solution to his problem. Self-pity is destructive; self-destructive. If continued it will lead
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