A classic from the dean of Christian counseling! Adams has helped thousands of pastors, laypeople, and professionals to implement a nouthetic, or Spirit-led, approach to counseling. Promoting use of biblically based discussion, he offers profound insight into the way sin affects human personality, and how confession and taking responsibility restore counselees to wholeness in Christ. Hardcover.
This classic has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypeople, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems.
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Reviewed by Rhonda Sanders (Glendale, AZ), November 18, 2009
I ordered 25, then 5, then 6 of this book. That's how satisfied I was in reading it. I believe it will be a good book to show the sin issue in people's lives.
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Reviewed by Daniel Markham (Fort Worth, TX), November 07, 2009
A "five star" work. I first read this book in 1986 but bought a new copy recently to refresh myself in the necessities of counseling bibically. This book is not just for counselor's, but for every believer who truly wants to reach those around him or her effectively and biblically.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Donald (Arlington, TX), April 28, 2008
I don't know if a few words in a review will do this book justice. This book is a real eye opener. If a pastor/elder in a church could only read one book on counseling, this would be it. Every person in the ministry should read this book. It is well worth the price and anyone who chooses not to read it is doing themselves as well the people they shepherd a disservice.
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Reviewed by Allen Blake (Haven, Kansas), November 14, 2001
Jay Adams is a leader in the movement to restore Christian counseling to its proper foundation - a biblically based world view. In Competent to Counsel, Adams reveals the anti-scriptural ideas on which various schools of secular psychology are based and the inroads those ideas have made into the church. He explains that the root problem of man is sin and shows that the biblical model is one in which Christians counsel one another. He especially addresses the role of a pastor as counselor, emphasizing that the basis for good counsel is good applied theology. Adams also draws from his experience to outline practical ways to impliment a counseling ministry.
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