Practicing Christian Leadership, Mentor's Guide, MG11

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2. Addressing today’s symptoms may bring some relief, but long term solutions bring healing and transformation, 2 Cor. 5.17.

3. God comes not merely to change a situation but to transform a person’s entire life (the old man is to be put off and the new man put on).

a. Rom. 12.2

b. Eph. 4.22-24

c. Col. 3.8-10

4. Sound biblical counseling, therefore, wants to address both the immediate problem as well as the situation which caused the problem in the first place .

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a. Rom. 13.14

b. Rom. 8.12-14

c. Gal. 5.25

d. Gal. 6.8

5. Our application: instruct not merely for the resolution of a symptom but a sowing to the Spirit, Jude 1.19-21.