Description
The Christian Counselor's New Testament is designed as a working tool that may be used during counseling sessions. Every decision regarding content and format has been made on the basis of whether it would prove useful in doing the work of counseling. This is not a study Bible, although the student will find in it much that will enable him to do studies of various sorts. Among the intended purposes that were in view are the following:
To provide easy access to key passages frequently used in counseling sessions;
To suggest ways and means of applying these passages to particular problems encountered in counseling;
To enable the counselor at a glance to review some of the basic principles of Christian counseling;
To help the counselor discover possible reasons for counsel ing failures;
To assist the counselor in improving his ability to use and apply the Scriptures more effectively in future counseling sessions.
In order to achieve these purposes, a system of highlighting, together with marginal notations and explanatory and applicatory footnotes, has been developed. In addition, at the end, copious supplemental helps of various sorts have been appended. Principal verses helpful in explaining the way of salvation are highlighted rarely, except in the Gospel of John. No one could anticipate how others might use the Scriptures in counseling, or what passages might prove especially helpful to them. Therefore, the highlighted verses and the marginal notations may need to be supplemented. Ample margins provide space for personal notations. Several blank pages at the back provide room for fuller comments and notes.
