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If you’re like most pastors, you find counseling a sweet and sour experience. You’ve known the joy of unraveling a problem, of saving a marriage, of guiding a young life, of becoming bonded with your people. Yet you’ve also known the weariness and frustration of insoluble and complex and unremitting difficulties, of midnight emergencies, of failures, divorces, fights, and problems, problems,...

her the term submit had been perverted into be abused. Still, I had to offer her spiritual resources. The question was how. Like a surgeon at a state-of-the-art hospital who employs the best technology can offer, a Christian counselor has powerful resources—spiritual resources—to draw on, but they are not automatically helpful. They can even be counterproductive. Over the years, I’ve learned that a counselor must employ spiritual resources with skill, sensitivity, and wisdom. Here is what I have
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