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The Journal of Pastoral Practice: Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1977 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For nearly 30 years, the Journal of Biblical Counseling (previously the Journal of Pastoral Practice) of CCEF (the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation) has provided a forum for biblical counseling’s development and application. The journal’s mission is to develop clear thinking and effective practice in biblical counseling through articles that faithfully bring the God of truth,...

Word of God presupposes the use of the mind. The attitude of contemporary Christians is too often the idea that what matters in the end is “not doctrine but experience.” In his chapter entitled “The Missionary Call,” Weiss leaves the Christian with the same kind of mindless experience. Much of what he says in the chapter is excellent. He urges rational responses to biblical data. But when speaking about the “particular call” for the individual, he shelves the mind and opts for the irrational, concluding
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