Counselling: Pastoral Care or Psychotherapy?
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Use the word 'counselling' in the presence of Christian ministers and it is guaranteed to produce a whole variety of responses. Some will readily and warmly receive the word because they have taken a counselling course, read some counselling books or practised some counselling skills; others will want a more precise definition to clarify just what is meant, and yet others will react in horror as the word immediately conjures up thoughts of secular rivals to the pastoral office. What is counselling? Is it the same thing as pastoral care? What is the difference between counselling, pastoral counselling, Christian counselling and biblical counselling? Is counselling the same as psychotherapy? Is it the same as the 'care of souls'? Does a Christian functioning in counselling automatically make his work 'Christian counselling'?
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