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Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible

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A great book where an author dares to speak against positions previously held. This book is for Christians who already are against psychology but have replaced it with the "Biblical Counseling" model. This book shows that concepts such as paid sessions, timed sessions, and segregation of councelor and councelee outside of counceling are not in line with Biblical teachings and instead patterned themself after psychological counseling. Urges readers that Biblical counseling is only an attempt to replace psychological counseling when only a return to the Bible is needed.

After observing the many abuses within the Nouthetic Counseling Movement, we began searching for someone who knew the movement well and could explain its practices to us. The Bobgans have written a well-researched, Biblical refutation to this powerful movement. Members of it for years, and well-credentialed themselves, the Lord has graciously opened their eyes to the dangers in this psychology-based, control-centered method. It's not that some nouthetic counselers don't do some good - it's that so many do so much harm. The system is fatally flawed, and takes "counseling" out of the hands of the Holy Spirit and His work in believers and puts it into the hands of "counselors" who are trained in the psychological mind games of the world. This book won't be popular, but truth seldom is.