Biblical Counseling?
We are grateful for the opportunity to walk alongside you and offer, by God's grace, encouragement and comfort. As you begin your biblical counseling experience here at North Texas Christian Counseling, we would like for you to be aware of a few essentials upon which we base our counsel:
We define biblical counseling according to these seven essential truths:
Dependence
Our dependence upon God as the sole source of counsel and power for change is reflected through prayer. (Psalm 127:1, Proverbs 30:2-5) We pray for you, our clients, during the counseling process, and we request that you also ask the Lord to do what only He can do.
Love
We desire to always express the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15), because God is love. (1 John 4:8b)
Enablement
We wait on Him who works wonders. Walking in the truth of 1 Peter 5:6-10, we delight in the timing of God Himself to restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
Power
We therefore humbly ask that your hope for change not rest in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God alone. (Acts 14:12-15, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
Transformation
There is no power available to effect heart transformation unless Christ intervenes. Apart from Him, we can do nothing. (John 15:5)
Solution
We trust the gospel of Jesus Christ as the only, all-sufficient solution for both unbelievers and believers. (1 Corinthians 1:18)
Pursuit
Our counselors love and relentlessly pursue the Word of God as our source of counsel. (Psalm 1:1-2)
For us, biblical counseling is a fluid event and process, as part of the Great Commission, whereby one or more theologically and relationally qualified persons provide spiritual, emotional, and behavioral service, comfort and guidance in love to one or more persons through the truth and power of God's Word under the ministry of His Holy Spirit.
“Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.”