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This book gets it right! Comprehensive and convincing, Counseling One Another shows how true biblical counseling and preaching fit hand-in-glove. Those who preach, teach or counsel regularly are sure to benefit greatly from this helpful resource. --Dr. John MacArthurPaul Tautges is fast becoming one of the major names in biblical counseling and pastoral ministry. His Counseling One Another blog and his blog posts and book lists at the Biblical Counseling Coalition are much sought-after resources. They are on the cutting edge of what the church needs today to advance God s work in our broken world. --Bob Kellemen, Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling CoalitionCounseling One Another addresses a serious deficiency in the discipleship ministry within the church. It advocates a radical departure from the status quo and a return to an authentic personal ministry of the Word among Christians through discipleship-counseling. It effectively lays the theological foundation for Christians regaining the New Testament priority of addressing personal soul troubles with biblical counsel. --John D. Street, Chair, Graduate Program in Biblical Counseling, The Master s College and Seminary
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This paradigm-shifting book helps believers understand the process of being transformed by God's grace and truth, and challenges them to be a part of the process of discipleship in the lives of their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. 'Counseling One Another' biblically presents and defends every believer's responsibility to work toward God's goal of conforming us to the image of His Son"€"a goal reached through the targeted form of intensive discipleship most often referred to as counseling. All Christians will find 'Counseling One Another' useful as they make progress in the life of sanctification and as they discuss issues with their friends, children, spouses, and fellow believers, providing them with a biblical framework for life and one-another ministry in the body of Christ.
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Paperback: 195 pages
Publisher: Shepherd Press (February 29, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1633420949
ISBN-13: 978-1633420946
Product Dimensions:
5.9 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.8 out of 5 stars
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Author: Paul TautgesPublisher: Shepherd PressReading Level: LeisurePages: 195As the world culture redefines the concepts of community and fellowship, today’s church needs to spend time looking at how church members relate and minister to each other. With a title like Counseling One Another: A Theology of Interpersonal Discipleship, Paul Tautges’s work seems to be ready to answer the call for how Christian could minister to each other.When Counseling One Another focuses on how the church can minister to each other the book shines. Unfortunately, this type of counseling cannot be found outside of chapters 5 (The Compassion of Brotherly Love) and 8 (The Community of Stimulating Faith). Apart from those chapters, Counseling One Another is more like a defense of Gospel-oriented counseling against all other forms of counseling. A worldview without the gospel is certainly deficient, but Tautges’s conviction and emphasis come at the cost of many false dichotomies. Counseling One Another spends too little time emphasizing true counseling. Instead, it is a polemic book favoring the “sufficiency†of Scripture in every counseling situation (18). This can be seen in the opening chapter’s polemical “us vs them†style as well as the opening sentences of certain chapters which define “authentic biblical counseling,â€â€œAuthentic biblical counseling is nothing more, and surely nothing less, than fulfillment of the Great Command to make disciples†(23)“Authentic biblical counseling stands in awe of the power of God’s gospel to convert thoroughly sinful men and women†(41)“Authentic biblical counseling chooses no other foundation to build its philosophy and practice upon than the Scriptures†(113)The result is a book which does little beyond repeating the message and content of the gospel and how God seeks to use that to shape the lives of sinners. The gospel is certainly the necessary starting point in the counselor and their worldview. However, Christians can maintain the supremacy of Scripture without the false dichotomies which exclude ministering to an individual who is not saved or de-emphasis knowledge from the scientific community. While the gospel message is true, it falls inadequately short of counseling. As a result, many unique counseling issues are simplified in Counseling One Another as if dealing with sin is the only concern. This is best exemplified in chapter 3 which argues that alcoholism and homosexuality are not a disease or biological/hereditary condition but “sinful lifestyle†(51-53, 56).Much of this mentality stems from Paul Tautges’s potentially extreme views on the gospel. He says, “the gospel is a message that God commands us to believe†[emphasis original] and “Understanding the gospel as a command to be obeyed has radical implications for discipleship†(27). Tautges is right, it does have radical implications — radically bad. The gospel is no command the unbeliever can willingly obey without the work of God imparting faith to man. Lutheran and Reformed theology would describe this as a confusion of Law & Gospel. More importantly, all Christians should see this language as obfuscating the line between justification received freely and sanctification.In conclusion, many of Paul Tautges’s conviction are profitable but, on the whole, this presentation should be rejected. Counseling One Another provides little beyond a recap of the gospel and certainly nothing like inter-personal discipleship in sanctification.Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
I wish I knew what this book was supposed to achieve. I’ve tried to think of an audience or a situation for whom it would be helpful and I can’t think of one. This is particularly frustrating as I wholeheartedly share the author’s fundamental concerns about counseling in the church, which include the common relegation of Scripture and real discipleship behind secular psychology, felt needs and the pursuit of a humanistic self-esteem.Judging by both the title and sub-title I had imagined that this book would address the need, opportunity and challenge for Christians to be counseling each other, but they are incidental to what is essentially a diatribe against sub-Biblical counseling methods.In his desire to create an enemy to spend the book attacking, Tautges recognises that he must first create a clear working definition of Christian counseling. He does that early on when he says,“counseling will be presented as a targeted form of discipleship, an intensely focused and personal ‘one-another’ ministry aimed at the serious development of serious disciplesâ€Except then he gives David Powlison’s definition of counseling as “intentionally helpful conversationsâ€.But then he immediately decides that a much longer and different definition is in order:“The definition that I will develop and defend throughout this book is as follows: Biblical counseling is an intensely focused and personal aspect of the discipleship process, whereby believers come alongside one another for three main purposes: first, to help the other person to consistently apply Scriptural theology to his or her life in order to experience victory over sin through obedience to Christ; second, by warning their spiritual friend, in love, of the consequences of sinful actions; and third, by leading that brother or sister to make consistent progress in the ongoing process of biblical change in order that he or she, too, may become a spiritually reproductive disciple-maker.â€In seeking to add clarity Tautges then states, “we must consciously use the terms ‘counseling’ and ‘discipleship’ interchangeablyâ€â€¦except he quickly contradicts that by saying, “discipleship is at the very core of counselingâ€. That’s like saying we must use the terms ‘apple core’ and ‘apple’ interchangeably. Maybe one day he’ll ask me for an apple and I’ll oblige by handing him what’s left after I’ve finished mine…And that’s where he lost me, because his long, working definition of counseling is so narrow – and misleading - as to be scarcely useful. It reduces a counseling to only one thing: the correction of a tolerance of sin in in the life of the believer. If he’d only stuck with his initial definition or Powlison’s and then written from that, but unfortunately the book really is a defense of his longer definition.He seems to miss the details involved in many other counseling situations, such as:• Working through grief• Dealing with abuse• Repairing a marriage broken by adultery• Living with AD(H)D• Disputes• AddictionScripture obviously speaks to ALL of those things and must form the basis of counseling on EVERYTHING, but Tautges is either being simplistic in thinking all you need are the Biblical headlines (e.g. forgive, trust in God’s love, worship God only) or in denial that such matters need help via counseling at all. Part of the art of Christian counseling is the application of godly wisdom to people in various situations – wisdom that doesn’t come via neatly packaged Biblical quotes but uses the principles within Scripture to provide actionable advice in various situations.Of particular concern, for example, is Tautges’ claim that “Instead of settling for the lesser hope of being a lifelong ‘recovering alcoholic’, the Bible enthusiastically offers the drunkard full deliverance from his or her sinful habit and a completely new life in Christâ€. Is Tautges really unaware of the chemical elements of addiction? Does he believe nicotine is addictive or would he anticipate a simple ‘deliverance’ from cigarette smoking too? And what of depression that isn’t based on sadness but is similarly to do with a malfunction of the brain. Are such people simply to be told to cheer up because God is with them?But having created his straw man, Tautges then spends most of the book dropping napalm on that and a variety of other views that he disagrees with. Even youth work: “The most effective model for youth discipleship is not the modern paradigm of the youth group, which all too often becomes nothing more than a larger gathering of immature fools…†At that point I almost had to laugh because it was clear by then that this was his modus operandi: form a singular generalization, build a straw man with it, and then mercilessly napalm it. No hint of nuance, no thought that perhaps churches try to combine youth work other methods of discipleship.Why does he do that? A look at Tautges’ blog would seem to indicate he doesn’t really believe what he’s saying here. One blog post of his is entitled, ‘Regular exercise helps fight depression’. In it are zero Bible quotes because, well, the Bible doesn’t say that regular exercise helps fight depression…but it’s true. Which gives the lie to Tautges’ assertion that the words of God are the only thing you need to be of non-medical use in ALL counseling situations.Later in referencing the parable of the two builders, Tautges points out that some people get it wrong when they say the ‘rock’ on which the house of our life is to be built is Christ, whereas he knows that it’s really obedience to Christ. Except he’s very obviously wrong, because the rock is a static thing onto which the house is to be built, so the rock is either Christ or perhaps the words of Christ, and building on the rock is obedience to the words of Christ.As a piece of writing, I was left longing for more editorial input. Phrases like, “Please allow me to provide a brief, yet related, aside…â€, prefacing most quotes with, “[quoted author] is correct when he says…†and the mountain of quotes underneath which the readability of the book – especially the first half - is crushed.The need to treat the Bible as God’s infallible Word in a counseling context is very real, and under great threat as the Bible seems to be valued less and less by Christians. The need for Christians to be counseling each other rather than merely standing back and hoping a ‘professional’ intervenes in difficult situations is a worthy cause to write about. But even though I feel like I’m on Tautges’ ‘team’ in this area, I didn’t feel like the book was something that helped confirm those beliefs, nor provide me with a useful tool with which to challenge those who disagree – it’s just too adversarial in tone.Which takes me back to my original concern: why and who is the book for? Not in a theoretical sense of who can be seen through the scope on Tautges' theological rifle, but who is supposed to read it? While I doffed my cap to Tautges’ background in pastoral work and counseling, I found myself wishing he’d written a very different book. One that would engage with the people Tautges targets, rather than eviscerate them in front of a friendly audience who could happily make do with a single blog on confirming for them what they...we...already know.[I was provided with a free copy of the book for the purposes of submitting a review.]
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