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The Journal of Biblical Counseling: Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 1999 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,...

Crabb would not disagree with what I’ve said, but the exalted place of other people in the process of connecting communicates that our need for people and our need for God are somehow on a par. Again, I believe this is directly attributable to Crabb’s anthropology. Consider this statement: “At the exact center of the human personality is a capacity or possibility that defines what it means to be alive as a human being” (p. 35). This may sound seductively true, but it isn’t. The center of what it
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