Ready to Restore: An Introductory Guide to Biblical Counseling, 2nd ed.
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Overview
This accessible introductory volume brings Jay Adams’s counseling expertise to ordinary Christians who want to counsel peers in need. Redesigned for its fortieth anniversary and celebrating more than 60,000 copies sold, this edition includes updated lists of critical resources.
- Who Should Counsel?
- Goals, Attitudes, and Dangers
- What Is Counseling?
- Ready to Restore
- What about Unbelievers?
- The Counseling Process
- Twenty-Five Basic Principles
- Discipline: A Two-Edged Sword
- Help on Data Gathering
- A Biblical Analysis of the Problem
- Finding the Biblical Solution
- Implementing a Biblical Plan
- Follow-Through: Working the Plan
- Using Homework
- Problems Frequently Faced
- How to Grow as a Counselor
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: The Personal Data Inventory
- Appendix B: The Counselor’s Topical Worklist
Returns counseling to laymen and women who are well-schooled in biblical hermeneutics, theology, and discipleship. It has all the foundational ideas that make biblical counseling effective.
—John D. Street, Chair of the Graduate Department of Biblical Counseling, The Master’s University and Seminary
A very readable small book that will help you to cut your teeth on the basics of biblical counseling.
—Lou Priolo, Pastor of Counseling, Christ Covenant, Atlanta
The mainstay of many lay counseling training programs since it was first published.
—Jim Berg, Professor of Biblical Counseling, Bob Jones University