ways, but such an inaccurate generalization lowers the debate to name-calling. Nouthetic theorists insist on the need for compassion in counseling. Adams states: The counselor must love people. That is one reason why he counsels. Because he does, he will be deeply distressed whenever he discovers that a counselee has lost hope. But even that distress must be balanced by enthusiastic hope. It is his task always to sound the note of biblical optimism that is warranted by the promises of God.36 Nouthetic