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The Christian Counselor's Commentary: Acts (Book/ Hardcover)

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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.

The book of Acts is not a record of the Acts of the Apostles, as it has often been wrongly titled - it contains acts of only three apostles. Rather it is a book about the acts of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, Whom He sent from the heavens to take His place among the disciples and the members of the church. Acts is filled with references to the Holy Spirit, so much that it might be appropriately titled "The Acts of the Holy Spirit."

As Jesus had outlined (Acts 1:8), the Spirit would come and see that the message was powerfully preached in Jerusalem, then in Judea and Samaria and, finally, to the ends of the earth. Preaching was extremely important to the work of missions, and so was counseling. Counseling followed the preaching as the means of establishing the infant congregations in their newly found faith. Because preaching and counseling are but two sides of the same ministry of the same Word to the same people to meet the same problems and needs, there is also much for counselors to learn from this inspired preaching. Acts is therefore a valuable book for study from many angles.

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.