Totally Sufficient Quotes

“Ron Nash has suggested that “a worldview deals with at least five major topics: what we believe about God, the universe, knowledge, right and wrong, and the nature of human beings.”5 The lack of unity that characterizes many couples is not surprising when we listen to their differing views on the topics suggested by Nash. Each element in the partners’ worldview should be carefully assessed, then, before marriage counseling begins. The problems couples experience are frequently rooted in a worldview that’s riddled with error and markedly deficient to that advanced by Scripture. People who hold to such errors are awash in a sea of subjectivity and relativism. Unless this deficiency is remedied, all attempts at counseling are like putting a Band-aid on a mortal bullet wound.”
― Ed Hindson, Totally Sufficient: The Bible and Christian Counseling

“My biggest concern in counseling is not that God won’t guide us into truth, but that either I or the counselee will get in His way through rigidity, pride, blind spots, defensiveness, and the like.”
― Ed Hindson, Totally Sufficient: The Bible and Christian Counseling

“God does not call us to be trendy, but truthful. Not fashionable, but faithful. His Word promises to provide us “everything pertaining to life” (2 Peter 1:3).”
― Ed Hindson, Totally Sufficient: The Bible and Christian Counseling

“The current plethora of psychotherapeutic approaches can offer temporary relief from emotional pain, but they can never meet the deepest need of the human heart. Therefore, all secular counseling approaches fall short of truly meeting a hurting person at the deepest level of their need for God. Secular approaches cannot meet sacred needs.”
― Ed Hindson, Totally Sufficient: The Bible and Christian Counseling

“None of the illustrations, observations, or details that secularists present are necessary for the task of understanding and helping people. We already have all we need – the authoritative, indispensable, perspicuous, sufficient, and superior revelation of God in His Word (Isaiah 8:19-20). Why, then, would any Christian think that we must turn to extrabiblical theories or the practices of men for understanding and promoting change in people?”
― Ed Hindson, Totally Sufficient: The Bible and Christian Counseling