Consider Your Counsel

In Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes In our Biblical Counseling, Bob Kellemen addresses 10 mistakes that he commonly sees, while seeking to give a more robust approach. These ten mistakes are:

· Elevate Data Above Soul Connection

· We Share God’s Eternal Story Before Listening to People’s Earthy Story

· We Talk at Counselees Rather than Explaining with Counselees

· We Target but Diminish Suffering

· We Fail to Fellow the Trinity’s Model of Confronting Care

· We View People One-Dimensionally Instead of Comprehensive

· We Devalue Emotions Instead of Seeing Emotions as God’s Idea

· We Minimize the Complexity of the Body-Soul Interconnection

· We Maximize Sin While Minimizing Grace

· We Confuse the Sufficiency of Scripture with the Competency of the Counselor

Dr. Kellemen approaches these areas with concerns about what he has observed in his experience and gives suggestions about what he thinks would be a better way to move forward. I believe that the book Curing the Heart: A Model for Biblical Counseling by Howard Eyrich and Bill Hines is the perfect companion for Consider Your Counsel as it gives in-depth teaching on many of the areas of concerns and suggestions for moving forward by Dr. Kellemen

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