Counseling that Ignores God
As a Christian, I believe we often face a tension between our biblical worldview and many counseling approaches that are primarily secular. Most theories, while providing helpful tools, either overlook God entirely or are based on assumptions that exclude Him from the healing process.
How do we fully address the human soul while setting aside its Creator? Seeking empowerment, justice, healing, or transformation without God’s presence and power feels incomplete. That is the counseling that ignores God. While I believe we can thoughtfully extract useful elements from various theories, I struggle with the idea of ignoring the One who provides the most comprehensive understanding of human nature and true wholeness.
It was with this in mind that I wrote The RENEW Model, I am convinced that the Bible is filled with a psychology that comes from God.
My prayer is that the Lord helps us stay discerning—recognizing what aligns with biblical truth and what does not—so that our counseling reflects both clinical competence and spiritual faithfulness; not an easy task in today’s tense climate, where it seems that progressive, liberal, and secular ideas dominate.
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