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  • How to Help People Change

  • The Four-Step Biblical Process
  • By: Jay E. Adams
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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How to Help People Change

By: Jay E. Adams
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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Change is the essential goal of the counseling process. How can a Christian counselor facilitate such change? The answer, of course, may be found in Scripture, specifically in 2 Timothy 3:14-17.

Professor, pastor, and well-known counselor Jay E. Adams bases his whole approach on Scripture. This book provides an unparalleled opportunity to see how he discovers and applies biblical principles as well as the way in which Scripture functions as the basis for his counseling approach.

In How to Help People Change, this book answers two questions:

  • “How does a counselor help people change?”
  • “How does Scripture provide the source of a counselor’s method?”

This book has much to say about the ongoing discussion of the relationship between theology and psychology in the enterprise of Christian counseling. Jay presents a fresh perspective not only on how to counsel, but also on what measures to take at what stages of counseling.

While touching on many aspects of counseling, How to Help People Change is specifically designed to elucidate the process of counseling.

Assignments are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©1985 Jay E. Adams (P)2022 Zondervan
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The Bible is sufficient in helping people with their problems, however if scripture is not used appropriately, it can only cause confusion and disappointment. This book helps align a believes life to the Word.

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I highly recommend this book to anyone who works in the field of counseling. Using many scripture references, Adams masterfully demonstrates the importance of using God’s word in helping people reshape their attitudes and habits in ways that enable them to win at life.

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Old wine, old wine skins

Such an academic-punitive approach to life change didn’t work 40 years ago when he first presented it and time has only confirmed its failure. “Obey or else” only produces self-righteous counselors and more wounds and toxic shame on God’s people. No personal or professional testimony in this book on people whom God has changed. Only an ivory tower lecture. Fundamentalist dogma has clearly failed to produce character and Spirit fruit - look at the evidence!

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