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A Classic in the Field of Christian Counseling Competent to Counsel has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypersons, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems. Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee. As Dr. Jay Adams points out in his introduction, 'I have been engrossed in the project of developing biblical counseling and have uncovered what I consider to be a number of important scriptural principles. . . . There have been dramatic results. . . . Not only have people's immediate problems been resolved, but there have also been solutions to all sorts of long-term problems as well.' Since its first publication in 1970, this book has gone through over thirty printings. It establishes the basis for and an introduction to a counseling approach that is being used in pastors' studies, in counseling centers, and across dining room tables throughout the country and around the world
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Henry Rosenfeld
reviewed Competent to counsel on May 21, 2020
Competent to counsel
This is a hard book to rate. Historically, Adams's work is very important. He was responsible for reclaiming the Puritan ideal of the pastor as counselor or "soul-doctor". By the 1960s, pastors had largely relinquished this role to "the professionals", and Adams led the way in undoing this abdication. There are many biblical principles in this book that are solid gold. Unfortunately, it also seems like Adams is very narrow in his application, seeing his method as the one right way to do things. In the right hands, and used by someone with wisdom, I think these principles would be helpful, but I've also heard stories about how dangerous these principles can be in the wrong hands. That's not necessarily a criticism of Adams himself, but he may have swung the pendulum too far in the opposite direction in reaction to the problems of his day. Those carrying on his work today, folks like Ed Welch, David Powlison, and Alasdair Groves, are applying biblical counseling principles with much more nuance.
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