This book answers such questions as: What can believers do to help individuals suffering from problems of living? What should churches do for suffering souls? What did the church do for almost 2000 years without psychological counseling? What did the church do without the biblical counseling movement which began about 25 years ago? This book calls Christians back to the Bible and to the biblically ordained ministries and mutual care in the body of Christ that have effectively cared for souls fo almost 2000 years. - Back cover.
In this book, researchers Martin and Deidre Bobgan chastise the Christian Research Institute for opening the doors of evangelical Christianity to what they call "Psychoheresy", a dependence on secular psychological counseling theories and therapies which they contend are in conflict with the Bible.b
Martin and Deidre Bobgan contend that professional psychotherapy with its underlying psychologies is questional at best, detrimental at worst, and a spiritual counterfeit at least. They hope for the end of "Christian Psychology.
Here is a hard-hitting, honest look at biblical counseling, a small glimpse of the vast resources available in scripture. Millions of people search frantically for answers to their problems: how to relate to others, how to accept themselves, how to find meaning in life, how to know God. Who better to educate those people than a counselor well-grounded in his or her faith, a counselor who can offer meaning in life through Jesus Christ? - Back cover.
Martin Bobgan puts forth an appeal for Christians to abandon the biblical counseling movementand return to an earlier dependence on the Bible and on Biblically-ordained ministries and mutual care in the the Body of Chirst.
Martin and Deidre Bobgan of Psycho Heresy Awareness Ministries take Dr. James Dobson and his Focus on the Family ministry to task, charging that Dobson's dependence on psychological theory dilutes the Christian gospel and misleads followers.i
Thoughtful Christian women who long for a richer and more intimate walk with God will deeply appreciate this refreshing new look at the Christian life as seen through the eyes of a ballet dancer. The remarkable parallels between the arduous training in ballet and the challenges of the Christian life are beautifully shared by Deidre Bobgan. Ballet requires intense discipline and stamina and a willingness to practice repeatedly the most simple exercises. Just like ballet, life demands equal commitment. Deidre illustrates how women can use the countless daily activities of life to become the women of grace God designed them to be. Women will find encouragement to submit themselves to a disciplined life and experience the freedom and exquisite beauty that come from a life empowered by the Holy Spirit and lived by grace through faith.
Person to Person Ministry is about a Christ-centered approach to nurture the spiritual life of Christian believers and to equip them to fight the good fight of faith and thereby confront problems of living through exercising faith in Christ and in the Word of God. This book reveals the innate sinfulness of problem-centered counseling, shows how it leads Christians into feeding the flesh and quenching the Spirit, and gives reasons why Christians must abandon the problem-centered approach. In person to person soul care, we urge believers to do three things: (1) abandon problem-centeredness; (2) embrace the biblical truth about the role of problems; (3) encourage one another to become Christ-centered on a daily basis. We pray that this book will encourage those in the church who are maturing in the faith through the trials of life and walking daily in the Lord to minister to others as needs and opportunities arise.
Martin and Deidre Bobgan, persistent critics of what they see as the negative intrustions of modern psychology into the church, examine the theories and practices of popular Christian psychologist Larry Crabb.d
The true spiritual way is based on the Bible. Rather than using theories of men, the spiritual counselor relies on the truths of God. Through such scriptural means as love, listening, acceptance, mercy, teaching, and encouragement, the spiritual counselor guides an individual in applying biblical principles to his life in order to develop more Christlike thought and behavior patterns. We are not opposed to, nor are we criticizing, the entire field of psychology, but rather the practice of psychotherapy based on ideologies which contradict Scripture. - Preface.
This book reviews the biblical counseling of Dr. Jay Adams, Dr. David Powlison, Dr. Heath Lambert, Dr. John Street, Dr. Jim Newheiser, Dr. Paul Tripp, and Pastor Randy Patten and reveals that the best examples of biblical counseling done by some of the foremost leaders of the biblical counseling movement have grave biblical errors. The undoing of the biblical counseling movement does not primarily come from their teachings, but from their practices and presentations of actual counseling when examined with the Bible. This book is an exposé of what seven of the recognized leaders and teachers of biblical counseling actually do in counseling and why believers should shun their counseling conversations.
Christ-Centered Ministry versus Problem-Centered Counseling is a radical proposal to discourage problem-centered counseling and to encourage Christ-centered ministry, to overthrow intimidation from the psychological and biblical counseling movements, and thereby to free believers in local congregations to minister to fellow believers without psychological or biblical counseling manuals, workshops, seminars, degrees, or certificates. The purpose of this book is to reveal the origins and faults of problem-centered counseling, to describe Christ-centered ministry and how it differs from problem-centered counseling, and to encourage local congregations to minister as God has called them to do without the influence of the psychological or biblical counseling movements.
The book "Counseling the Hard Cases" was co-edited by Stuart Scott and Heath Lambert, seminary professors in biblical counseling. This Critical Review reveals that the lynchpin for Scott and Lambert's house of cards is their view of mental illness. Their fallacious view is a disaster in the making and a danger to those who counsel and their counselees. Believing, teaching, and promoting such a view of mental illness will lead to calamities as it places in litigious danger those who will foolishly follow and copy-cat counsel with confidence accordingly. This can easily be a great detriment and disaster to those who receive such counseling. This Critical Review issues the following warning: Do not blithely, blindly, and blatantly play follow-the leader with the ten case studies showcased in "Counseling the Hard Cases." Do not take literally these ten cases and the inferred claim that you, too, can cure through biblical counseling the hard cases listed in "Counseling the Hard Cases.
Exposes the mental health professions' false facade of expertise for screening missionary candidates and caring for missionaries. It explodes the myths that surround the psychological testing used on these hapless men and women. It further reveals the prolific practice of using mental health professionals to provide psychological care for missionaries suffering from problems of living.
Psychoheresy: Is about Chistianity and psychology; Examines four commonly-held myths about psychology; Analyzes attempts to integrate psychology with the Bible; Reveals research exposing the fallacies of psychological counseling; Encourages a return to biblical foundations for Christian living. - Back cover.
The Sodomy of Christians: The Biblical View is written for Christians who desire to think and live according to the Word of God, because many are, perhaps unknowingly, following the sinful ways of the world in the marriage bed. Information is provided about the sexual climate in America and in the church to alert Christians of the dangers of sodomy and to urge all Christians to discipline their bodies according to God's sexual design for mankind as revealed in Scripture. Christians who have engaged in sexual intimacy outside the pattern of God's design, as clearly revealed in Scripture, need to follow the Narrow Way, rather than the ways of the world, the flesh, and the devil. The reason why Americans and many Christians have swallowed the whole homosexual agenda is because many heterosexual Americans and Christians were themselves practicing homosexual sexual acts. After all, aside from the gender of their partners, heterosexuals were doing the same thing as homosexuals: oral and anal sex.
Why is there sin, rape, drisease, war, pain and death in a good God's World? Every Christian asks--but rarely receives an answer. The Grand Demonstration penetrates deeply into scriptural teaching regarding the nature of God. Moving into territory others fear to tread, Jay Adams maintains that a fearless acceptance of biblical truth solves the so-called "problem of evil.
12 Steps to Recovery is for those who are suffering from the trials of life and for those who want to help. It is for those who are thinking about joining a recovery group or entering a treatment center for codependency or addiction. It is for those who have tried Twelve-Step programs and recovery treatment centers and found them lacking. It is also for those who are currently in such programs. And, finally, it is to encourage Christians who offer such programs to return to the faith once delivered to the saints. READABLE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING, CONTROVERSIAL, AND CHALLENGING.
Hypnosis: Medical, Scientific, or Occultic? reveals that hypnotism is potentially dangerous at its best and is demonic at its worst. At its worst hypnotism opens an individual to psychic experiences and satanic possession. When mediums go into hypnotic trances and contact the "dead," when clairvoyants reveal information which they could not possibly know, when fortunetellers through self-hypnosis reveal the future, Satan is at work. Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness, and there is no difference between the altered state of consciousness and the shamanic state of consciousness. Satan transforms himself into an angel of light whenever necessary to accomplish his schemes. If he can make an occult practice (hypnosis) look beneficial through a false facade (medicine or science), he will. It is obvious that hypnosis is lethal if used for evil purposes. However, we contend that hypnosis is potentially lethal for whatever purposes it is used. The moment one surrenders himself to the doorway of the occult, even in the halls of science and medicine, he is vulnerable to the powers of darkness.
The true spiritual way is based on the Bible. Rather than using theories of men, the spiritual counselor relies on the truths of God. Through such scriptural means as love, listening, acceptance, mercy, teaching, and encouragement, the spiritual counselor guides an individual in applying biblical principles to his life in order to develop more Christlike thought and behavior patterns. We are not opposed to, nor are we criticizing, the entire field of psychology, but rather the practice of psychotherapy based on ideologies which contradict Scripture. - Preface.
Here is a hard-hitting, honest look at biblical counseling, a small glimpse of the vast resources available in scripture. Millions of people search frantically for answers to their problems: how to relate to others, how to accept themselves, how to find meaning in life, how to know God. Who better to educate those people than a counselor well-grounded in his or her faith, a counselor who can offer meaning in life through Jesus Christ? - Back cover.
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