him what God says about it. Do you understand what I’m saying? I’m not denying that parents sometimes do terrible things to children. Of course they do. But that’s not the key. The key is what you do with that, how you respond to that, how you interpret that. The past is a way of revealing the counselee’s “manner of life.” Ephesians 4:17–24 is a key passage; let’s look at it. Verse 22 speaks of the “former manner of life.” Manner of life is one word in Greek: anastrophe. Anastrophe literally means