Jared Goff’s Reviews > Competent to Counsel > Status Update

“It is important for counselors to remember that whenever clients camouflage, whenever they hide to avoid detection, whenever they purport to be ill when they are not, sick treatment only makes them worse. To act as if they may be excused for their condition is the most unkind thing one can do.”

Pages 32-33

“The point that needs to be made is that since the Holy Spirit employs his Word as the principle means by which Christians may grow in sanctification, counseling cannot be effective (in any biblical sense of that term) apart from the use of the Scriptures.”

Pages 23-24

“The thesis of this book is that qualified Christian counselors properly trained in the Scriptures are competent to counsel - more competent that psychiatrists or anyone else.”

Page 18