“[Biblical counseling] is a partnership between people who are seeking God’s wisdom—a wisdom that goes to the heart of the matter. It is a wisdom that can penetrate a person’s inmost being (Hebrews 4:12).”
(Edward T. Welch) Biblical counseling is a hybrid of discipleship and biblical friendship. Its occasion is when life seems painful, confusing, or unmanageable, and we turn to the Spirit and the Word for help. This anchors biblical counseling in the ancient tradition of pastoral care, which has now been dispersed to all God’s people (Ephesians 4:11–13). Biblical counseling is not a trademarked school of thought. Instead, it rests in the public domain and grows as we all bring Scripture to the difficult details of life in a way that honors God and is exactly what our souls need.
Biblical counseling is built on a simple, enduring principle: the triune God has spoken to us through the Scripture, and “in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son” (Hebrews 1:2). God has revealed mysteries about us and about his ways that are essential for life, which we could not have discovered apart from his words. To be more specific, through biblical history, God’s covenant promises, doctrine, law codes, poetry, songs, which were all reaching for Jesus, God has revealed to us everything we need to know about him, about ourselves, and about the world around us (see 2 Peter 1:3). We have access to everything that Jesus had: “I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father” (John 15:15). This means, at least, that Scripture has more riches than we know.
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