Counseling in Community - A Review of L. Crabb

As stated in his interview, Larry Crabb maintains that his basis for counseling in community revolves around two questions: 1.What kinds of relationships lead to the growth of people in them? 2.What kinds of relationships lead to the destruction of people in them? The bottom line is the soul in its relationship to God and to others. So therefore, if there are healthy relationships within the community that can promote the growth of spiritual relationships, …

…part of a supportive church family. Of course, in reality it doesn't always work that way. Not discrediting clinical counseling as it plays an important part, I think that as society moves away from a reliance on God, we become dependent on an educated theorist and a system of diagnosis to protect us from disintegration. Counseling in community promotes the establishment of interdependence among people: equipping them with the ability work together in healthy relationships.