In this brief editorial, Jay Adams provides some basic ways to assess whether a counseling system is truly biblical. Many counselors today claim to be doing biblical counseling, but do so in name only. Adams uses a simple question to evaluate any system of counseling: Is the system constructed out of biblical materials according to biblical principles? He concludes that examining this question can lead to greater discernment in evaluating various approaches to counseling.
How Can You Tell?
from the Journal of Biblical Counseling 9:1 | 1987