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Christian Counselors Must Appreciate the Role of Prayer in Therapy and Personal Transformation. The seventh main concept that was presented in this book deals with Christian counselors recognizing the role that prayer plays within therapy and personal transformation with our clients and us. The authors (Hawkins & Clinton 2015) have provided an overview on the importance of prayer connecting us to God. Before Christian counselors use the spiritual intervention of praying with and for our clients they need to first grasp the need to pray for oneself and ask God to provide them with the wisdom needed to help our clients (p. 328). When the counselor seek God wisdom though prayers it allows them to have cleansed hearts that will provide the way to see the clients through God’s eyes in turn will allow the love of God to overflow into the …show more content…

Once the counselor understand their own personal role in using the spiritual intervention of praying for their clients then one must incorporate the powerful intervention of praying with our clients. According to Hawkins and Clinton (2015), “one of the most powerful things we can do as Christian counselors is to actually pray with and for our clients,” (p.334). It is our duty to make sure that the prayer intervention has been covered in the initial consent form given to our clients and that we still ask the client for permission before praying with them during a session (p.334). In essence, the intervention use of prayer is to use it in a manner that is therapeutic and instructive for our clients therefore we must remain sensitive to our clients’ responses to the use of praying (p.

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Prayer should be in the forefront of everything. The privilege of communicating with and co-laboring with God is a practice essential to fruitful work as a

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An individual can become emotionally disturbed due to their own sin or due to the sin of someone else. Psychological and Spiritual Growth This segment of the chapter discuss whether or not a counselor should confront the client about sin. Will the confrontation increase their spiritual and mental health, or will it cause them to turn away from the counselor and the help the counselor has to offer? McMinn says that there are four appropriate ways to confront the client’s sin in counseling.

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This excerpt I read is powerful,has strong meaning to it,and should persuades you to feel a type of way about it because it makes you feel that your inside the story. This piece is called “Sinner in the hand of an Angry God”,by Jonathan Edwards. The central idea is that God is furious about all the bad people of their sins because you shouldnt ever sin. First the excerpt that Jonathan Edwards wrote is “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God.”Mr. Edwards is an American Christian theologian.

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was written by Jonathon Edwards. He wrote about how everybody will go to hell one day, and God holding you over a great bottomless pit with a slender rope. Puritans from the 18th century would take his sermon seriously. I would not have taken his sermon seriously at all, and thought of it as an ordinary piece of writing. Edwards used resources of a language to give his audience a sense of fear and anguish.

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A picture is worth a thousand words. In “Sinners of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards captures an image of hell in the Puritan’s mind. Creating a sense of fear during the Great Awakening, Edwards urges the parishioners to accept God as their Savior and avoid sinful behavior. Edwards passionately tries to persuade the Puritans to realize their eternal danger of sin by using fiery diction that creates a fear of hell, and dramatizing human weakness through a primal human fear. Edwards begins his sermon with the use of imagery to create for the audience an image of hell as “someone’s foot sliding” and a “fiery oven”.

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As Screwtape advises his nephew, "When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them try to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by its success in producing the desired feeling, and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment" (Lewis, 16). The emotional rush that occurs when drawing near to the Holy Spirit is a feeling almost every Christian has experienced. New believers tend to use this feeling as their sole motivation for prayer, study, and worship.

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(2010) by McMinn, Staley, Webb, and Seegobin the authors decipher the differences between various Christian approaches. Biblical counseling, pastoral counseling, and Christian psychology are a few of the different methods which can be used when clients want a Christian perspective integrated into their therapy. Biblical counseling is mainly used among very conservative Christians who wish to return the role of counseling to the church (McMinn et al., 2010, p. 392). “Biblical counselors consider the bible to be superior and more authoritative than psychological science, theory, or technique” (McMinn et al., 2010, p. 392). Pastoral counseling can have two different meanings.

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Therefore, a counselor wants to be a channel through whom the love of God for this client can flow. This means that a counselor would need to be participating in the life of God so that the ways of God and the goals of God are primary in the counselor’s life. In other words, an counselor would need to do the things that God would have them to do. If an counselor was to talk and live the life of a Christian, then they don’t need to change how they really are within a session. In a counselors mindset this would include inviting the client to be an active participant in the counseling process with emphasizes on collaboration, working on the goals that the client identifies, (which makes up a good counselor because that’s the number one thing is to actually listen to the client), a counselor should manage appropriately within the context of the therapeutic relationship, treat the client with respect and not quick to belittle them or think negative of them, developing skills of empathy so that a counselor can speak the truth in love, and being knowledgeable about and adhering to the ethical standards established for the profession of

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