How can I pray for you?

Steve Midgley | Features | pastoral care

Date posted: 1 Jan 2017

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An essential feature of biblical counselling is that we pray for those we counsel.

Not ‘pray about them in their absence’ but ‘pray with them in their presence’.

It reflects the conviction that in counselling there are always more than two people involved.

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