Christian Counseling Research Paper

Leaning on the flesh – According to Charles (1993, pg.12) Christian counseling has never enjoyed the reputation for results it should have had because, in the main, it has also leaned heavily on the arm of flesh. This is true for Christian counseling in relation to the practice itself. Dependency or overemphasis on psychology and psychiatry as indispensible to caring for most mental health needs has left Christian counseling and its practitioners being classified as inadequate outside of such secular knowledge and their related tools and techniques. It wasn’t until lately that Christian counseling has begun claim an appreciable level of respect in this field. Leaning on the flesh also can be considered from the perspective of the client. According

He also averred that the object of counseling and teaching in the foregoing passage is to bring those with whom we deal to maturity in Christ. Unless a person has a personal relationship with Jesus, the chance of the efficacy of Christian counseling is not promised, as the Apostle writes, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Romans 8:7) Davis (2011, pg.10, 11) writes that while secular counseling changes the outer man, Jesus changes the inner man, which is the heart and the mind…Therefore, it is

He further avers that as in any ministry, a person who would try to enter full-time counseling must be assured of God’s leading (Charles, 1993, pg.20). Jones (1994) would rather say that our ongoing quest is to understand what God is calling us to be and to do, and to live in keeping with that calling personally and vocationally. Such understanding of counseling save the believer from attempting to deal with complex problems without the competence required, endangering the wellbeing of the client. Agreeing with this concept, Adams (1973, pg.5) thinks that while every Christian must become a counselor to his fellow Christians – equivalent to being a witness – the work of counseling as a calling is assigned particularly to the