2019, Vol.27, No.2

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

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

The history of Christian counseling developed in the history of acceptance, reject and integration between Christianity and psychology. The principles of integration of Christian counseling are: Trinity, authority of Bible, Biblical human condition, Christian worldview, eclectic acceptance of psychology, eclectic acceptance of counseling skills and methods, resource of faith community, personality, faith and ethics of Christian counselor. First, the process of counseling is presented in the time series : early-middle-last stage of counseling. Second, the process of counseling is presented in the image of concept and purpose of counseling. Third, the process of counseling is presented in the base of wholistic human understanding. Fourth, the process of counseling is presented in the resource of Christianity. There are principles of the skills and methods of Christian counseling. First, Christian counseling can accept and use general counseling skills and methods eclectically in the Christian perspectives. Second, Christian counseling examine generally useful counseling skills and methods in the Christian perspectives. Third, Christian counseling make use the traditional resources of the Christian community. Fourth, Christian counseling need the new developed counseling tools, programs, skills and methods for the practical situation. Fifth, Christian counseling need the new developed Christian counseling & training program and supervision for the Christian counselors.

This paper reviews the new wave of the biblical counseling movement and proposes tasks for the upcoming Korean biblical counseling movement. Biblical counseling recently has been gradually expanding its influence within the evangelical Christian camps in North America. The movement develops into the progressive biblical counseling, beyond the traditional perspective. This new wave has impacted on the Korean Christianity as well. The movement in Korea, initiated from evangelical schools and institutes, has introduced the concepts, values and principles of biblical counseling, and now seeks to embed them into local churches and the public. At this point, the tasks of Korean biblical counseling movement are as follows. First, a need is nurturing professional biblical counselors with expertise of theology, Christian psychology and counseling practice. Second, a task is to develop theological and Christian psychological theories (quantitative, qualitative research, and research methodology of doing psychology biblically), which support the practice of biblical counseling. Third, it is desirable to develop effective methods, counseling-structures, and tools available in the field. Fourth, creating the solidarity with local churches and social institutes, participants need to contribute to the spread of the movement of taking a role for the public faith in action. These proactive tasks would be the ready for the new wave.

The purpose of this study is to suggest the Causes of sexual Violence of Pastors and Preventive Measures so leaders of christian churches of Korea could acknowledge the significance of this issue and take part in actual actions. The sexual violence and abuse of pastors are at the core of the corruption and graft of christian churches of Korea. Therefore, the author has analyzed the causes of sexual violence of pastors and preventive measures. First, the author addressed the reality of sexual abuse by pastors and its aftereffects. In this paper, the author claims that psychological factors of pastors, patriarchal church structure, abuse of spiritual authority, arbitrary interpretation and misuse of the Bible, distortion of moral virtues of Christianity, practice of a church of protecting it own people, lack of regulations and laws, and others are attributable to pastors’ sexual abuse. As for preventive measures against sexual violence of pastors, the author suggests various options in detail under 4 aspects: spiritual, educational, pastoral, and institutional aspects. It is truly hoped that this study could be used for the sexual violence prevention education for pastors, so that it will not only prevent the sexual abuse of pastors in the church, but also contribute to the restoration of the holiness of christian churches in Korea.