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COUNSELLING
1. INTRODUCTION:
- The need in the church for deep-level healing and deliverance are more than ever before.
- The subject of inner healing is confusing for many within the Christian community.
- For those that belief they are born into Christianity it is most of the time not something that they linked up with the church.
- For most of the others that belief in a rebirth experience, also belief after rebirth you are free from everything.
- The times we are living in are loaded with untold complex personal problems, spiritual, psychological and social.
- The task to assist persons today cannot be left completely in the hands of psychiatrists and psychologist, although we would express great appreciation for the great work they are doing.
- According to Scripture we need to minister to the total person.
- It is thus not surprising that, during the past few years, we have begun to hear more about Christian counseling.
- There is much that the counselor can learn from the secular auxiliary sciences, yet the Holy Scriptures remain the most important source of knowledge.
- God is the author of the Bible, and HE is the Creator.
- No-one understands man in his totality better than God.
- There are mainly two aspects concerning the science of psychology which have been neglected and even totally ignored when dealing with people and their problems.
- The first is the sin factor and the second is the importance of the Holy Spirit in counseling.
- We cannot ignore the reality of sin and the role it plays in personal problems, and the necessity that forgiveness and deliverance play.
- True Christian Counseling only takes place when the Holy Spirit works through the counselor.
1.1. What is counseling?
- Many people have a misconception concerning counseling, confusing it with encouragement.
- Encouragement – means to encourage, inspire by discussion, by the Word and through prayer.
- No change or solution is demanded here and no attempt is made to lie aside, or to put off, old and wrong habits and to put on, or take up, a new way of living.
- Counseling – means to find God’s solution to a problem, which often includes a new and changed way of living.
- The Webster dictionary says: counsel is to give advice.
- There is something innately attractive about being a counselor.
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