Top Highlights

• the potential benefits of using medication might outweigh the costs, including side effects; so simply note at this
• Our weakness in the cure of souls has paralleled the rise of many God-bereft understandings of human nature and many Christ-suppressant cures.
• The church of Jesus Christ is pointedly called by God to comfort the disturbed—and to disturb the comfortable, that they, too, might be comforted with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
• Scripture always points us in two directions: whole-hearted trust in the God of mercies and whole-hearted love that considers the best interests of other people.4 Easy to say, hard to do. No other counseling models even say it. Some form of enlightened self-interest is the highest good they can imagine.
• Model-builders are believers. They live the doctrines and ethics that their models teach. Each theory and practice bears witness to its author’s core personal faith.