Biblical Counseling in Miniature

Ed Welch:

Know the other person well enough to be able to pray for him or her.

That’s biblical counseling in miniature. Be personal. Study and know the person. Then, together, consider how the promises and wisdom of God, especially as they meet their zenith in Jesus Christ, overtake, compel and lead us in how to live and pray. And prayer, by the way, is a tangible expression of rising hope. Hope is what most of us dream about when we are stuck in our troubles.

There are details that lie behind these general guidelines. There are plenty of how-to’s in biblical counseling. But they all serve to place wisdom in its apt setting – the knowledge of God and love.