Book Recommendation for the Counselor’s Ministry: Christ Formed in You
You’re reading the third in a weekly series of posts where I’m recommending books for counselors. Shorter than a book review but longer than a tweet, these recommendations will whet your appetite to buy books that will build your ministry by equipping you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.
Read my first recommendation: The Cross of Christ
Read my second recommendation: Dynamics of Spiritual Life
Christ Formed in You by Brian Hedges
Hedges’ sub-title communicates well: The Power of the Gospel for Personal Change. If 
that’s not a subject for biblical counselors, I don’t know what is.
Hedges provides a rare balance of gospel-centered indicative insights with gospel-centered imperative implications. The first section provides the direction or goal; section two the pattern of change including the affections, mortification, vivification, and motivation; section three highlights the biblical “means of grace.”
Without outlining the book as Creation-Fall-Redemption-Consummation, it clearly follows that theological motif, thus offering the counselor a comprehensive look at our original state, the problem, and the pattern of change.
Christ Formed in You reads like a modern-day Puritan manual on Christian living—but without the wordiness and archaic words of our wonderful Puritan forefathers.
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