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CrossLife Ministries is committed to providing sound and practical Biblical counseling, educational services, and materials to help people understand who they are in Christ; to effectively deal with their problems; and to experience the freedom and abundant life God promises in His Word. Biblical counseling based on the Bible’s principles is provided in the areas of relationships, marriage and family, emotional issues, spiritual issues, and depression.
Grace That Works
Most people tend to separate difficulties into two areas—psychological and spiritual. This trend implies a clear and clean division between the human soul and spirit. While there is a division between the soul and spirit, this division is not so distinct. There is no inner conflict which is not psychological, because there is never a time when your mind, emotions and will are not involved. Similarly, there is no problem which is not spiritual. There is no time when God is not present or when it is safe to take off the armor of God. There is a tendency to polarize into a spiritual ministry, ignoring the realities of the physical realm, or a psychotherapeutic ministry, ignoring the spiritual realm. It has been said by a leading theological professor that, as long as believers accept “a two-tiered worldview with God confined to the supernatural and with the natural world operating for all practical purposes according to autonomous scientific laws, Christianity will continue to be a secularizing force in the world."
How Can We Help?
We see a large overlap in the ministries of discipleship and Biblical counseling. Christian discipleship looks to the future to encourage spiritual growth and maturity. Biblical counseling looks to the past to correct problems and strengthen areas of weakness. But both ministries should start in the present by being intensely personal, caring and loving. For each of us, our past has shaped our present belief system and behaviors and will shape our future. Not all of the past is good for any of us and some parts of our past—beliefs and behaviors—may need to be dealt with in counseling.
CrossLife Ministries will help the Christian by focusing on the believer’s walk by faith and maturity in Christ. We will look also at some of the strategies of the world to obstruct this walk and maturity. We will deal with foundational issues of one’s identity in Christ and outline practical steps on how to live by faith, walk according to the Spirit, renew one’s mind, manage one’s emotions, and resolve the emotional trauma of one’s past through faith and forgiveness. At CrossLife Ministries we are committed to providing a balance in our approach to counseling. We want to help a person experience healing from the difficulties (s)he is experiencing by looking at the soul (mind, emotions and will) and the spirit and the true identification of each.
