Many approaches to counseling and personal ministry are lopsided, treating people as minds to be taught or problems to be fixed rather than whole persons whose experiences, hurts, and relationships matter. In The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life, Jeremy Pierre offers a comprehensive, Scripture-centered framework for understanding how the heart thinks, feels, desires, chooses, and responds to everyday life.
Pierre combines a faith-centered view of people with a practical, Word-centered methodology to help caregivers interpret difficult experiences in light of Christ. He organizes his approach around four activities—reading, reflecting, relating, and renewing—that equip pastors, counselors, and ministry leaders to listen well, help others examine their beliefs and desires, connect experience to the gospel, and encourage new responses of faith.
Rejecting the false dichotomy between spiritual and nonspiritual aspects of life, Pierre shows how thoughts, emotions, and choices express the spiritual activity of the heart and how ongoing trust in Christ is both the beginning and means of heart change. Drawn from his experience as a counselor, pastor, and seminary professor, this book offers a theology of human experience that informs pastoral care, discipleship, and personal ministry.
Product Details
- Author: Jeremy Pierre
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Format: Paperback, 272 pages
- Dimensions: 6.0 x 9.0 inches