Top Highlights

• the Christian considers a person’s inability to get along with God to be an even more basic cause for counseling. Whatever one’s other problems may be, there can be no change that is acceptable to God, and in the long run, to the counselee, until fundamental, positive change toward God has occurred.
• It is encouraging that so many Christians are vitally interested in helping others. But try as they may, many run smack up against the hard realities, only to discover that their best intentions are no substitute for knowledge and skills. Though sincerely wanting to see change, they simply do not know how to bring it about. In order to help others,...
• Whenever well-meant help is not biblically directed, it does more harm than good. It amounts to bad advice, leading to harmful action. Or else it leaves the situation unchanged by misdirecting energy, so as to produce more problems rather than solutions.
• Knowing and using the biblical process can make all the difference in the world: it can bring about change that honors God and helps others.
• No matter how divergent their dogmas, all counselors—Christians included—agree that the aim of counseling is to change people. Change—whether in the counselee’s thinking, feeling, behavior, attitude, sensitivity, awareness, or understanding—is the goal of all counseling.