My heart goes out to you. One reason is because I can identify with some of what you’re going through. Earlier in my life I struggled with being overwhelmed by feelings.
You might not be able to come to Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation for counseling, but we would like to help you find a biblical counselor in your area. These guidelines can help you make wise decisions in choosing a biblical counselor.
A counselor should be someone who:
Counseling With Suffering People
The Journal of Biblical Counseling • Winter 2003
I begin with five assumptions. Without them, what I have to say about counseling and suffering will not stand.
1. Counseling is conversational exultation in the manifold mercies of God.
2. Mutual counseling is a normative event in the conversations and relationships of the body of Christ.
3. The aim of true counseling is the glory of God through Jesus Christ.
4. God is most glorified in our lives when we are most satisfied in Him.
5. Suffering is a universal human experience, designed by God for His glory ...
Jay Adams is the author of Competent to Counsel and many other biblically-oriented works on Christian counseling. Over the years his writings have been a source of controversy because he has held to the belief that Christian counseling should be solidly based on the Scriptures, and that modern psychology has no authoritative basis on which to guide people.
Many conservative Protestants do not see the sufficiency of Scripture for the cure of souls. Typically, "spiritual" matters are split off from "psychological, emotional, relational" matters.
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