Consider Your Counsel

Description

Consider Your Counsel by Bob Kelleman is one of the best biblical counseling books I’ve ever read. It is essentially a primer on how to disciple others. The book’s content is based on ten mistakes that Kelleman has witnessed counselors, including himself, make. The book’s chapters consist of the ten mistakes which are:

1. We Elevate Data Collection above Soul Connection
2. We Share God’s Eternal Story before Listening to People’s Earthly Story
3. We Talk at Counselees Rather Than Exploring Scripture with Counselees
4. We Target Sin but Diminish Suffering
5. We Fail to Follow the Trinity’s Model of Comforting Care
6. We View People One Dimensionally Instead of Comprehensively
7. We Devalue Emotions Instead of Seeing Emotions as God’s Idea
8. We Minimize the Complexity of the Body-Soul Interconnection
9. We Maximize Sin While Minimizing Grace
10. We Confuse the Sufficiency of Scripture with the Competency of the Counselor

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