Five steps to pastoral care
1. Uncover the Enslaving Idol
Traditional counselling starts and stops at the level of behaviour. It’s behaviour modification instead of transformation. In fact 2 Peter 2:19 says “They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.”
Underneath all sin is idolatry. There is no freedom in sin. Sin is simply choosing your master, but it’s not freedom.
Addiction is the secular language for the biblical language of slavery.
