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Over 50 times in the New Testament Christians are taught to one another each other. The reason God’s people can one another each other is because of the gospel. The gospel provides the fuel which God’s people go in the Christian life. Christians need to learn practically how to one another each other for this is how they take what they know in their heads and apply it to their hearts. We are to take what we know apply it to our hearts and to one another. But how do we do that? To answer this question is why Dr. Robert Kellemen wrote Gospel-Centered Counseling How Christ Changes Lives.
Gospel-Centered Counseling looks at the richness of God’s Word, wisdom for a broken world, Jesus the great physician, our view of God, spiritual warfare, spiritual friendship, our view of people, our role as soul physicians, spiritual adultery, diagnosing the fallen condition of the soul, applying the gospel to suffering, regeneration, growth in grace in community, eternal perspective, gospel-centered growth in grace, progressive sanctification, and living the gospel.
Gospel-Centered Counseling is a biblical approach to caring for others in order to equip readers to change lives with Christ’s changeless Word. This book is centered on Christ and focuses on balancing truth and love. This is a guidebook through eight ultimate questions that every person asks and every biblical counselor must address. This is an important book for any Christian wanting to learn to care for other Christian. This book is a must read for every Bible college and seminary student preparing for any ministry role. This book should be read by pastors and ministry leaders who wish to train others in biblical counseling. This is the first volume in the Equipping Biblical Counselors Series, a comprehensive two-part biblical counseling training curriculum for the local church that weaves biblical insight with compassionate Christian care. Book two forthcoming is Gospel Conversations a relational training manual that equips readers to develop twenty-one biblical counseling competencies.
Whether you are new to ministering to others or you have decades of experience, Gospel-Centered Counseling has something for you. Combining the best practices in Christian counseling with sound biblical exegesis, and practical teaching, Gospel Counseling will help Christian readers to one another in a way that glorifies God. I highly recommend this book and believe it will help to continue to see churches that make, mature, and multiply disciples to the glory of God.
Title: Gospel-Centered Counseling How Christ Changes Lives
Author: Robert Kelleman
Publisher: Zondervan (2014)
I received this book for free from Zondervan Academic for this review. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
