Introduction
The most effective approach to counseling anyone, whether that is in a business office or a counselling room, is to reach the entire person holistically. The person’s mind, body and spirit are all interconnected and a problem cannot be resolved until it is approached through all parts. Often, counselors want to “fix” the problem that a person is dealing with, like depression, by giving them medicine and “curing” the actions of being depressed without rooting out the source of the depression. The type of counseling where this will most likely happen in through working an office as a secretary or on the mission’s field in another country and will be through presenting the Gospel to unbelievers. In an office or on the mission’s field, …show more content…
When Jesus was about to leave earth, He comforted His followers by telling them that He was going to leave them with a comforter, which is the Holy Spirit (John 14:18-27). Prior to the act of handing their life over to Christ the Holy Spirt will already be working to draw the person to their knee in repentance and recognition of their need. No man can come to the Father unless they are drawn by the Holy Spirit (John 6:44). Until the Holy Spirit opens their eyes to their need, they will remain blinded by their sin. The Holy Spirit plays multiple rolls in the believer’s life, God states that He dwells inside of the believer (1Corinthians 6:19), has sealed the eternal security of the believer (Ephesians 1:13) and fills the believer completely (Ephesians 5:18). The Spirit is the new believer’s personal Counselor (John16:8), will intercede when the believer does not know how to pray (Romans 8:26). When the new person in Christ will be lead, guided and help by the Holy Spirit to do God’s Will for their life. The Holy Spirit will never cause a person to do something that is in contrary to what God has declared as right. No one will be able to blame the Spirit for causing them to sin, as His job is to do the opposite and steer the sinner away from the sin. The Holy Spirit is a part with God the Father and God the Son, together they make up one God with different roles; since God is holy and without sin, …show more content…
In the beginning God created man in His image and a part of that was that the first man did not sin. However, he was not incapable of sinning like God is, because the first man, Adam, was a reflection and not a duplicate of God. When Adam and Eve chose in Genesis 3 to sin against God by eating of the Tree of Good and Evil that God commanded them not to eat from, they brought the punishment on themselves. This punishment resulted in them being removed from the Garden of Eden and their sin spread to all men. “Just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so sin spread through all men” (Romans 5:12). The fall of man will play an important role in helping a person to understand why they have sin in their life in the first place. Once there is an understanding that there is a need for Christ, that is when they will be able to have a response to the Gospel that Christ made a way for them to know Him personally and to escape the punishment of death for their
The most effective approach to counseling anyone, whether that is in a business office or a counselling room, is to reach the entire person holistically. The person’s mind, body and spirit are all interconnected and a problem cannot be resolved until it is approached through all parts. Often, counselors want to “fix” the problem that a person is dealing with, like depression, by giving them medicine and “curing” the actions of being depressed without rooting out the source of the depression. The type of counseling where this will most likely happen in through working an office as a secretary or on the mission’s field in another country and will be through presenting the Gospel to unbelievers. In an office or on the mission’s field, …show more content…
When Jesus was about to leave earth, He comforted His followers by telling them that He was going to leave them with a comforter, which is the Holy Spirit (John 14:18-27). Prior to the act of handing their life over to Christ the Holy Spirt will already be working to draw the person to their knee in repentance and recognition of their need. No man can come to the Father unless they are drawn by the Holy Spirit (John 6:44). Until the Holy Spirit opens their eyes to their need, they will remain blinded by their sin. The Holy Spirit plays multiple rolls in the believer’s life, God states that He dwells inside of the believer (1Corinthians 6:19), has sealed the eternal security of the believer (Ephesians 1:13) and fills the believer completely (Ephesians 5:18). The Spirit is the new believer’s personal Counselor (John16:8), will intercede when the believer does not know how to pray (Romans 8:26). When the new person in Christ will be lead, guided and help by the Holy Spirit to do God’s Will for their life. The Holy Spirit will never cause a person to do something that is in contrary to what God has declared as right. No one will be able to blame the Spirit for causing them to sin, as His job is to do the opposite and steer the sinner away from the sin. The Holy Spirit is a part with God the Father and God the Son, together they make up one God with different roles; since God is holy and without sin, …show more content…
In the beginning God created man in His image and a part of that was that the first man did not sin. However, he was not incapable of sinning like God is, because the first man, Adam, was a reflection and not a duplicate of God. When Adam and Eve chose in Genesis 3 to sin against God by eating of the Tree of Good and Evil that God commanded them not to eat from, they brought the punishment on themselves. This punishment resulted in them being removed from the Garden of Eden and their sin spread to all men. “Just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so sin spread through all men” (Romans 5:12). The fall of man will play an important role in helping a person to understand why they have sin in their life in the first place. Once there is an understanding that there is a need for Christ, that is when they will be able to have a response to the Gospel that Christ made a way for them to know Him personally and to escape the punishment of death for their