Part 3 – What Are We Doing Here? How the “Aims” of Biblical Counseling Differ from Secular Therapies
ARTICLE • Biblical counseling diverges from the aims of secularized therapies in multiple ways, including the desire to transform lives into the image of Jesus Christ, to bring about personal sanctification, and to relate realistically to counselees in light of the realities of both God and indwelling sin.
Read time: 7 min
Part 2 – What Are We Doing Here? How the “Content” of Biblical Counseling Differs from Secular Therapies
ARTICLE • Biblical counselors understand that solutions to life’s problems lay external to us in God’s Word and are mediated to us through Scripture-saturated, Spirit-empowered, sanctifying conversation.
Read time: 6 min
Part 1 – What Are We Doing Here? How the “Worldview” of Biblical Counseling Differs from Secular Therapies
ARTICLE • The worldview of biblical counselors differs significantly from both secular and secularized ‘Christian’ worldviews, influencing the aims that the counseling conversation should take, the diagnoses of the root causes of a counselee’s troubles and responses to trouble, and the actual counsel given.
Read time: 7 min