Counseling through the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
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He cannot be sloppy about the way in which he counsels, expecting the Holy Spirit to do his work regardless of how the counselor does his.
Chiefly the Holy Spirit works in conjunction with the proper exercise of the gifts he has given although, of course, he is not bound to do so. This is because he has chosen to work through human agency, a fact which he has clearly demonstrated by giving gifts of ministry to his church.
Orvil (Ty) Tice, entered full time Ministry with his wife, Betsy, over 30 years ago. He has served as a pastor both with Church of God (Cleveland, TN) and. Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Ty has spent his life in the care of others. He hails from Counseling through the Gifts of the Holy Spirit by [Tice, Orvil].
The use of human agency in counseling, then, does not in itself bypass the work of the Spirit; to the contrary, it is the principal and ordinary means by which he works. But, as Paul says in Galatians 3, human activity which neither acknowledges nor draws upon the power of the Holy Spirit, rebelliously seeks to circumvent the Spirit and is thereby devoid of the power to effect what can only be brought about by the Spirit.
In II Corinthians 3: He was flexible and authentic in expressing Himself. In 1 Thessalonians 5: We can be used of the Spirit to guide individualss into a dynamic, transforming relationship with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. The title apostle comes from the Greek word apostolos which means "a messenger, one sent forth with orders". We can find Biblical examples for each of the four styles. Thus, the nature of counseling consists of the following ideas.
We shall see infra that he gave it for such a purpose, and that it is powerful when used for that purpose 2 Timothy 3: His counseling work is ordinarily performed through the ministry of this Word. In this chapter it is unnecessary to reexamine all of the biblical passages by which this relationship of the Spirit to the Word may be established, since that has been done frequently in books on systematic theology and treatises specifically relating to the work of the Holy Spirit.
But it will be necessary to study the Scriptures to see what the Holy Spirit has told us about counseling, for this has not been done satisfactorily.
To be led by the Spirit Galatians 5: The point that needs to be made is that since the Holy Spirit employs his Word as the principal means by which Christians may grow in sanctification, counseling cannot be effective in any biblical sense of that term apart from the use of the Scriptures. The fact of the Holy Spirit in counseling, therefore, implies the presence of the Holy Scriptures as well. Counseling without the Scriptures can only be expected to be counseling without the Holy Spirit.
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Frequent references to the place of the Holy Spirit in counseling will be made specifically throughout this book, but wherever his work has not been spelled out in detail, it is everywhere assumed. Since concrete methodology in counseling will often be discussed at length, it might be possible to dip into portions of the book and get the impression that the Holy Spi rit has been supplanted by human techniques. But it is precisely this disjunction which is false.
When the Holy Spirit moved directly in the hearts of believers at Jerusalem to motivate them by love to pool their goods for the sake of the poor, he was no more at work than when Paul organized and conducted a successful fund raising campaign throughout the Mediterranean world for the same purpose. Methodology and technique, skill and the exercise of gifts are all consonant with the work of the Spirit. Gifts, methodology and technique, of course, may be abused; they may be set over against the Spirit and may be used to replace his work.
But they also may be used in complete subjection to him to the glory of God and the benefit of his children. Davison has well stated this point when he rightly warns against the attempt to secure a spiritual end by the adoption of habits, the multiplication of rules, and the observance of external standards, excellent in themselves, but useful only as means subordinate to the Spirit. In II Corinthians 3: Bulletin of Suicidology, December , Washington: Government Printing House, p. It is obvious that both are true, since the Holy Spirit uses the Scriptures to bring hope.
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