I just got the latest Journal of Biblical Counseling in the mail and am currently reading David Powlison’s articles addressing crucial questions of the chuch’s current practical theology of counseling. In particular he looks at the two major camps within Christian counseling - the integration camp and the biblical counseling camp. It is powerful and very helpful stuff so far. If you have subscription to the journal and have a chance to read this let me know your thoughts. I’d love to dialogue over this. Powlison amazes and challenges me by his deep humility, understanding, and care for the church and individuals. Here’s one quote that can be applied to many other issues of debate in the church:
“Many well-intended believers on both sides of the debate are more clumsy than perverse. Our sin makes us clumsy thinkers, clumsy practitioners, clumsy theologians, clumsy exegetes, clumsy cultural analysts. We all get pigheaded, shortsighted, particularly stuck in those forms of error that contain partial truths. Yes, all error has perverse logic, but we may hold to errors and semi-truths without being wholly perverted people. May God make us deft - together.†David Powlison, Cure of Souls (and the Modern Psychotherapies), JBC, Spring 2007, p. 7
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