Chapter Three THE HUMAN COUNSELOR Who Should Counsel? While every Christian must become a counselor to his fellow Christians, the work of counseling as a special calling is assigned particularly to the pastor.1 Biblically, there is no warrant for acknowledging the existence of a separate and distinct discipline called psychiatry. There are, in the Scriptures, only three specified sources of personal problems in living: demonic activity (principally possession), personal sin, and organic illness.