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  • Competent to Counsel

  • Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling
  • By: Jay E. Adams
  • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
  • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (46 ratings)

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Competent to Counsel

By: Jay E. Adams
Narrated by: Milton Bagby
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A classic in the field of Christian counseling, Competent to Counsel has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypersons, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems. Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee.

As Dr. Jay Adams points out in his introduction, "I have been engrossed in the project of developing biblical counseling and have uncovered what I consider to be a number of important scriptural principles.... There have been dramatic results.... Not only have people’s immediate problems been resolved, but there have also been solutions to all sorts of long-term problems as well." Since its first publication in 1970, this book has gone through more than 30 printings. It establishes the basis for and an introduction to a counseling approach that is being used in pastors’ studies, in counseling centers, and across dining room tables throughout the country and around the world.

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©2009 Jay E. Adams (P)2021 Zondervan
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Outstanding Read for all Christian!

A must read for anyone wishing to pursue biblical counseling, but also an excellent resource for all Christians as this book will help one to understand and learn how God's word can uncover and resolve any of life's challenges.

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helpful and full of wisdom

truly helpful to the counselor in training. also a great handbook for anyone working with people and especially students.

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Very sound doctrine

This was a great book! I don’t agree with every aspect of what Jay Adams writes. Overall, though, his arguments and methodologies are useful as a parent and as a Christian helping other Christians.

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Rejects the ones who need help the most

This is an insensitive narrow minded view of mental health. It’s dangerous to reject the ones who are suffering and broken hearted the most. It discounts factors of abuse that results in mental health issues. It’s true sin is a problem for us humans, however many suffer from the sins done to them also. Pure religion is the one who cares for widows and orphans, not rejects and condemns them.

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