Counselling Bible Skill Role Play

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Book review:- Title:- How to help a friend by Selwyn Hughes. Introduction:- About the author, Selwyn Hughes (27th April 1928- 9th January 2006) a Pentecostal minister for eighteen years. Born in Fochriw, he worked as a minister in Cornwell, Wales, Yorkshire and London. Best known for writing the daily devotional Every Day with Jesus. He was the founder of the Christian Ministry Crusades for World Revival. He has written many Christian books such as The Pocket Guide for People Helpers (Jun 2004) etc. Prominent men such as George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury describes this author as a “giant in the faith”. The author of this book started his writing in the 1960s with his brief Bible reading written on post cards, this was mainly used by his congregation. However, the demand grew and he committed himself in publishing this bible reading for forty years and in 1965 he founded an organisation called Crusade for World Revival. The author lost his wife in 1986 from cancer and also suffered the death of his sons. In spite of this sad event, he remained strong in faith and published his autobiography My Story in 2004 and in 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by Brunel University for his service to Christian Education. This excellent book is for every Christian who wants to make a difference in helping a friend, a family member of a fellow Christian in trouble. The author’s targeted audience is every Christian, as well as ministers and undergraduates. The author claims that this book is aimed at helping people on the first two levels of Lawrence J. Crabb’s book titled Effective Biblical Counselling that claims that there are three levels of counselling (1) Counselling by encouragement (2) Counselling by exhortation (3) Counselling by enlightenment. He claims that this book is aimed at identifying the principles by which one can turn
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