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Counsel One Another: A Theology of Personal Discipleship is unavailable, but you can change that!

Today, churches are increasingly placing their confidence in Christian psychology as the answer to their need for the ministry of counseling. But counseling is not primarily the work of the professional: it is a crucial way for believers in Christ to demonstrate biblical love toward one another within a gospel-centered, truth-driven, and grace-dispensing church environment. That is the main point...

God’s Word is something relatively new, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the Apostle Paul confronted this same problem in the first-century church at Corinth. Not far into his first letter, the apostle exalted the gospel of Jesus Christ above worldly wisdom. In fact, he specifically warned the church of the natural human tendency to conceal Christ through “cleverness of speech” (1 Cor. 1:17). This should have hit home to the Corinthians since they thought the world of worldly
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