Spiritual problems can be solved spiritually and physical problems need to be solved physically. Spirituality gives us power to address different issues but if you need an appendectomy you need to go to the hospital. If you need counseling, you need to go to a counselor... I needed counseling and I tried to pray about it and it didn't work. Counseling helped me accept me for who I am so I could get my life in order.His counselors were professionals who happened to be Christians, not the other way around. There is a negative connotation to the going to therapy that even I have had. My wife and I had premarital counseling and I'm sure we will go to counseling in the future. Not because we have marriage-threatening problems, but because we don't want them.
Related: Ted Haggard is starting a new church, with a tithing lottery.
Interesting, Harrison. I've never met a pastor who has promoted counseling outside the church (or outside a Christian-based counseling entity).
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I think I'd also grown up assuming Christian based counseling is the only way to go, but having a brother and sister-in-law who are counselors has really helped me see the expertise involved.
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