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The Christian Counselor's Commentary: The Gospel of John and the Letters of John and Jesus (Book/ Hardcover)

Product Overview

Rather than a technical commentary on the Bible, Dr. Jay E. Adams has provided the reader with an in depth analysis in everyday English, providing a valuable tool for the layman as well as the Pastor/ Counselor in this series of commentaries. Jay Adams explains and applies biblical truths in the clear, understandable way that typifies his writing. The entire series is comprised of 10 volumes.

This series of commentaries on the Bible is unique. Dr. Adams brings the fruit of many years of study from the perspective of his work in Greek, Pastoral Theology and Counseling. The commentaries contain the results of his exegesis and interpretation as well as his insightful application of these to the work of counseling. They will help you apply the counsel of God's Word to yourself, your family, your Christian brother and your neighbor.

Since counselors are so intimately involved in dealing with people of various sorts, the great number of persons with whom Jesus deals in this Gospel (from Nicodemus to Judas) especially provides interesting material for them. Counselors may learn much from the ways in which Jesus approaches, confronts, and changes these persons with whom He comes into contact. No two are dealt with in exactly the same way. No one need ever come into contact with Jesus and go away the same. if he avails himself of the opportunity that such contact provides, he will depart a new and better person. Some in this book do; others don't; still others, we simply don't know enough about to say. But each one Jesus meets in his own milieu to symbolize the truths that He wishes to teach.

The Letters of John and Jesus?

Rarely, it seems, does anyone recognize that Jesus composed seven letters (in Revelation) to seven different churches in Asia Minor, dictating them to John. That apostle, under divine inspiration, was himself the author of three other epistles: I, II, & III John. As a matter of fact, II & III John are themselves counsel extended to individuals in trouble or danger. The letters in Revelation are counsel to entire churches, but each has an individual emphasis with which it closes.

About the Author(s)

For over 40 years Dr. Jay Adams has been calling God’s people back from their dalliance with unbiblical psychological theory to a renewed confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit and the sufficiency of God’s Word to equip the man of God to help his people with problems of living and relationship. Happily, many have heeded his call and over the years a movement, both deep and wide, has developed, consisting of pastors and other Christian workers who have been trained in and are practicing the kind of truly biblical counseling God intended for His people to receive. Jay Edward Adams was born in Baltimore on January 30, 1929 and was born again about 15 years later in response to the reading of a New Testament that was given to him by a friend. He received his formal training at Reformed Episcopal Seminary (B.D.), Johns Hopkins University (A.B.), Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, Temple University School of Theology (M.ST.), and the University of Missouri (Ph.D.). He pastored churches in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, served as a denominational official, a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, the director of the Doctoral program at Westminster Theological Seminary in California, and then as a church planting pastor in South Carolina. He was also the founder of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in Philadelphia, the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors, and Timeless Texts which now publishes his books. In 1999 Dr. Adams retired from the pastorate of the church he had planted in South Carolina and has devoted his time to writing and lecturing. In the fall of 2001 the Redeemer Biblical Counseling Training Institute (RBCTI) was established at the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Moore, SC to provide a vehicle by which Dr. Adams could continue teaching.