2019, Vol.27, No.1

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1739-0745 / eISSN : 2799-6530
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jocag

Christian Counseling is a way to help people who struggle with the problems in their lives based on Biblical views on human being, not just for improving functions but for 'soul-caring'. Christian Counseling therefore needs more holistic system to be built in order to faithfully contribute to soul-caring. Recognizing the necessity for taking note of continuity in Christian history, this paper aims to identify the substances which can be derived from resources for soul-caring of Puritans who take unique position in Christian history. As a methodology, this paper identifies the necessity and significance of reconnecting soul-caring traditions through utilizing Puritan resources. Next, through researches on Puritan literature, it finds the difference to secular studies focused on abnormal psychology in the fact that it tried to approach the healing after identifying the reason centering on the three entities of God, human and Satan. After finding that Puritan soul-caring were faceted with Christ-centeredness, holism, wisdom and love, the paper, based on them, proposes Christian counseling process model, which encompasses reasoning and diagnosing structure particular to Christian counseling, recovery of Christ-centeredness, research on keeping mind, and application of caring centered in family for the recovery of healing principle. Finally, the paper claims that this study has significance as research on Puritan literature for groundwork of Biblical system construction focused on soul-caring.

The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of nursery youth and to propose a biblical counseling approach to the anxieties affecting their career decisions. Child care institutions provide collective protection for children under the age of 18 who are difficult to take care of at home. Child care institutions adolescents able to receive personal attention and guidance will suddenly be asked to switch to self-reliance at the age of 18 without planning and practice for progress and employment. After leaving the nursery, anxiety about his future is making career decisions more difficult. From the Bible point of view, the root cause of anxiety begins with the sin that mankind has first committed, and arises from distrust in trying to control one's own life without trusting God. Therefore, when God recovers his identity as a master of life and a creation of God, not only his job problems but also his anxiety disappears. This differs from general psychology, which focuses on psychological stability by modifying behavior and drawing positive thoughts and thoughts. Thus, the principles and methods of Bible counseling were applied to adolescents at day care centers who were anxious to decide their course ahead of retirement, and through the actual case analysis, a Bible counseling approach to anxiety was presented.

This paper argues that Herman Bavinck's understanding of the covenant has practical implications for Family Life Education. For Bavinck, the family is a covenantal community driven by God. According to Bavinck, the covenant is originated by the triune God from the eternity. Through Christ’s merit, his people eternally enter the covenantal relationship with God. Bavinck stresses the following characteristics of the covenant. First, the covenant has its origin only in God’s grace. Second, the covenant highlights God's sovereignty over his people. Third, the covenant in essence is unilateral, but it turns out bilaterally. Fourth, the covenant embraces the organic unity of his creation. These aspects of the covenant contain practical values on Family Life Education. First, grace is the origin of the family. Second, the owner of the family is God. Third, family members voluntarily obey one another in love, and thereby they together participate in the process of sanctification, which includes forgiveness and mortification of sin. Fourth, the family is a channel through which its members experience the kingdom of God and carry its grace and value into a broader society. These implications will be able to provide practical theological foundations for the development of a biblical Family Life Education Program.