“One of these norms says that Christians must not talk negatively to other people about those who are not in the group.… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Love, therefore, may be commanded (Luke 6:27 ff.; Ephesians 5:25) and taught (Titus 2:3-4). Love does not come naturally, it must be… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“All living organisms grow. Growth may sometimes take place in large spurts, and at other times may occur more slowly. In all… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“They speak the truth with their neighbor for his welfare. Christians must willingly unveil their own hearts and share matters of mutual… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“the Christian cheerfully asserts the possibility of thorough, rapid change. This is a very crucial plank in the Christian counselor’s platform. As… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Love is not first a feeling. Though the feelings come later and grow thick in the basic loam of love, they don't… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“A Christian sins if he becomes a static, sedentary person who fears positive biblical change and frantically clings to the past, either… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
A vital Christian, radiating that hidden beauty of the heart, is more attractive to the right sort of Christian man (the only… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Corresponding to the two basic philosophies of life, then, hedonism and biblical theism, are two views of love. Everyone, of course, is… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“The problem in counseling is to bring Christian counselees to full recognition of the glorious reality of the eternal inheritance. The present,… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Change, then, is necessary, but change is hard. One of the major reasons why Christians founder is because they are either unwilling… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Christians, whose basic orientation has been reversed so that they now seek to glorify God, must learn to take the initiative, subdue… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Week after week, counselors encounter one outstanding failure among Christians: a lack of what the Bible calls “endurance.” Perhaps endurance is the… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Counselors must recognize that too many Christians give up. They want the change too soon. What they really want is change without… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“No man is free to ignore God’s standards. No one has the right to choose not to serve God, for God has made man… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is at work, one of the discernible evidences of His presence is changed personalities. Men can and do… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Nouthetic counseling, then, necessarily embodies involvement of the deepest sort.” — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“While victories in the struggle are possible through Christ (vs. 25), they do not come easily or apart from daily battles involving just such… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“But even that distress must be balanced by enthusiastic hope. It is his task always to sound the note of biblical optimism that is… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“The fourth response is Christian: “It can be solved through Christ.” Notice that the first three responses leave the problem intact and as a… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does the Bible say that one must wait for change. Jesus did not ask people to wait. He expected and effected change right… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“the Christian cheerfully asserts the possibility of thorough, rapid change. This is a very crucial plank in the Christian counselor’s platform. As a basic… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“There are at least seven separately definable elements involved in biblical change. These cannot be viewed merely as successive steps, since most of them… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“Most cases of child discipline may be solved by establishing structure that will lead to the reenforcement of the biblical principles established for the… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
