Book Recommendation for the Counselor’s Ministry: Dynamics of Spiritual Life
Today is the second in a series of posts where I’m recommending books for counselors. Shorter than a book review but longer than a tweet, these recommendations will whet your appetite to buy books that will build your ministry by equipping you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.
Read my first recommendation: The Cross of Christ.
Dynamics of Spiritual Life by Richard Lovelace
Like my first recommended book, this book—Dynamics of Spiritual Life—is a theology book—theology related to Christian living—which is what biblical counseling is also all 
about.
Lovelace’s subtitle communicates a lot: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal. Another way of putting this would be that this book provides a practical theology of the spiritual life. It offers a biblical theology of sanctification—of growth in grace.
It offers what is too often missing in theology texts—relating theology to life. It offers what is too often missing in counseling books—theology for life.
It focuses on what I call “spiritual theology”—the “bridge” discipline that is based on the “What?” of academic theology and moves to the “So What?” of daily Christian living, and the “What Now” of biblical counseling.
One cannot claim the mantle of “Christian/biblical counselor” without a growing depth of insight into a theology of the Christian life—salvation and sanctification.
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What impact has Richard Lovelace’s Dynamics of Spiritual Life had on your life and ministry?
What additional books do you recommend for the counselor’s ministry?
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