Why You’ll Want to Read Gospel-Centered Family Counseling
As an equipper of pastors and counselors, I hear all the time how intimidating family counseling is. Recently, an experienced pastor shared with me:
“Family counseling? Don’t even get me started on that. By the time family members get to me, they’re so angry that they aren’t listening to each other. And half the time, they don’t even want to listen to me! I constantly struggle to move from my good theology of family, to knowing how to help the hurting family I am supposed to be counseling.”
The Purpose of Gospel-Centered Family Counseling: Filling the Gap
Even in the biblical counseling world, we have next-to-nothing available about procedures—the “how-to” of counseling hurting families. Pastors and counselors desperately need help in relating their theology to family chaos.
We need training manuals on the nuts-and-bolts of the procedures and processes of helping the family sitting in front of us. Gospel-Centered Family Counseling steps into this void. This how-to training manual provides practical, user-friendly equipping for folks like you—pastors, counselors, lay leaders, educators, and students. This book walks you through a step-by-step training manual for developing your skills and competences in biblical family counseling.
Enjoy 11 Free Resources
- Enjoy this Podcast Interview on the How-To of Biblical Marriage and Family Counseling that I did with the Association of Biblical Counselors on Gospel-Centered Family Counseling and Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling.
- Read the Series Introduction to Gospel-Centered Family Counseling and Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling.
- Read the Introduction to Gospel-Centered Family Counseling.
- Read Endorsements for Gospel-Centered Family Counseling.
- Read the Foreword by Dr. Deepak Reju.
- Read Quotes of Note from Gospel-Centered Family Counseling
- Read Family Counseling Is Complex! Here’s Your Step-by-Step Training Manual
- Learn how family counseling is different from individual counseling in: Family Counselors Don’t Replace Parents; They Empower Parents
- Learn about Biblical Help and Hope for Marriage and Family Counselors
- Read Pastor Dave Dunham’s review: “The Best of It’s Kind!”
- Read Tim Challies’s post about the book in: Help and Hope for Couples and Families.
“Theologically Robust, Philosophically Refreshing, and Methodologically Rich.”
“Having spent over twenty years as a biblical counselor, I’ve often wondered why our movement had written so little on the subject of family counseling. My experience is that most biblical counselors are just not well trained in navigating the complexities of whole-family counsel. Having been trained in family therapy I have a deep appreciation for Bob Kellemen’s inclusion of both parents and their children in the family counseling process. Now with Gospel-Centered Family Counseling, we have no excuse and great reason to engage both parents and their children in the counseling process. Gospel-Centered Family Counseling is theologically robust, philosophically refreshing, and methodologically rich. I highly recommend it to those counseling families and those training care givers planning to work with parents and families. —Dr. Garrett Higbee, Director of Pastoral Care for the Great Commission Collective; Founding Board Member for the Biblical Counseling Coalition
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