tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480260783011142201.post6241679193513487468..comments2024-02-02T12:43:19.705-08:00Comments on THE WAY WITH WORDS: Biblical Counseling, CCEF, Jay Adams, etc.Dave Swavelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10903342933814792279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480260783011142201.post-26342228632630683592010-02-05T21:35:14.483-08:002010-02-05T21:35:14.483-08:00Here is a response to these emails from a pastor f...Here is a response to these emails from a pastor friend:<br /><br />Hi Dave,<br />I read the emails and the issue conflict is pretty apparent. It is a common one I have seen in a number of churches and which you reference in one of your emails. That is the intersection of positional sanctification and progressive sanctification. Sonship champions the former. Nouthetic counseling the latter. Although both are caricatures of their positions, as Miller's book on Repentance and 20th Century Man and Adam's Theology of Christian Counseling illustrate. Your point about the judicial versus parental relationship with God is important to express the dynamic of the two and is represented in 1 John 1:8-2:2, which declares a positional and thorough forgiveness by virtue of union with Christ and the need for honesty about sin and need for ongoing confession of sin, which relates only to believers. The best book on the subject is Jerry Bridges' Disciplines of Grace, which combines his books Pursuit of Holiness (think Adams) with Transforming Grace (think Miller).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com