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Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Today’s search for inner fulfillment has exploded into what is now called the Recovery movement, complete with twelve-step seminars, counseling programs, and self-help books. Thousands are looking to Christian psychology to help them attain victory over modern dysfunctions. Does that mean the Bible alone is no longer adequate for the problems faced by Christians today? Some say we need the...

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
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