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This 3 page paper presents the major ideas or themes of two authors: Crabb's Effective biblical counseling: A model for helping caring Christians become capable counselors and Hawkins' Model for guiding the counseling process. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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relationship with God, to please God through service, praise and worship. He also discusses the theological perspective that ones purpose is to mature in Christ and offers two elements that
are involved in maturity: immediate obedience in specific situations and long-range character growth" (p. 23). The author says that maturity grows or increases over a period of time, it
is not instant (Crab, 1977). It begins with justification and it ends with glorification. Between these two points in time, people need to choose to be obedient and also choose
to experience changes in our inner hearts. Through this we will experience both external and internal changes all through our choice to obey God (Crab, 1977). Both our motivations
and our personality will change when our goal is to please God and not ourselves. This is an important theme for counseling. Crabb does provide four specific approaches to integrate
the Bible with counseling. The approaches deal with the issue of Scripture versus psychology. Separate but Equal approach has to do with the Bible versus Psychology. It represents people who
believe that the two are separate; Scripture deals with the theological and spiritual and psychology is under the umbrella or medical paradigms. People who have real psychological problems need to
seek professional psychological help from trained professionals. Tossed Salad approach advocates believe Scripture and psychology overlap in some areas. Proponents take parts of psychology and parts of psychology
and mix them together. While some may consider this Christian psychology, Crabb believes that this approach does not properly filter the components in psychological theories that are contrary to Scripture.
Nothing Buttery is the approach that totally ignores psychology. The belief is that God can handle all problems, therefore, psychology is irrelevant. Another premise in this approach that sin is
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