Care of Souls Conference 2025: The Church in Counseling

The only organization God called, equipped, and founded to offer counseling is the Church. The ministry of the Word is an essential function of the Church, and it is lamentable that many churches have departed from teaching sound doctrine and subsequently sound counseling. As local churches contextualize their mission to gain acceptance in the culture and adopt secular methodologies, the field of counseling is being surrendered to psychology and questionable parachurch ministries that operate outside the Church’s oversight. As a result, they lead people away from Christ and His Church. Counseling is a spiritual endeavor, the work of the Holy Spirit. He saves people, places them in the Church, and matures them through the Word counseled in and through the Church.

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