When you sit down with someone in your church, perhaps someone who is struggling with marital strife due to alcohol abuse or anxiety after a job loss or a prolonged depression, how much time do you take to “enter into the person’s world”? Over the course of pastoral counseling, do you take the time to learn about how the person interacts with popular culture in its various … [Read more...]
5 ways to help counselees find friendships
Too often, when self-sacrificial love is required to form friendships, we isolate and hunker down in our own foxholes of safety and security. Over the years, I’ve noticed that a large majority of the people I see for counseling have few to no friendships in their life. Indeed, for many of them, some of the exact conversations we have with them in counseling, they could be … [Read more...]