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e. The position we take is that there is only One New Covenant and it was meant
for the nation of Israel. But because of Israel’s rejection of their Messiah, the
Church has come to benefit from the New Covenant, and only from its spiritual
blessings. The physical blessings are not for the Church, but for Israel alone. The
Bible foretells a time however when Israel will also benefit from the New Covenant,
at the time when Christ returns and saves them. Then they will benefit both
from the spiritual blessings as well as the physical blessings of the new covenant.
Thus we believe that God has not given up on Israel. He still has some plans for
them, that are different from His plans for us.
f. We believe that this view is the one that is most biblically based of all. In Romans
11:17-27, the apostle Paul used the analogy of an olive tree to illustrate this. Let
me summarise what he wrote: The Covenant is represented by an olive tree. The
Israelites are the natural branches of this olive tree. But because of their unbelief
they were broken off from the tree. We, who are branches from a wild olive tree,
were then grafted into the olive tree. And when the Israelites turn to Christ, they
will be grafted back into their own tree again. And it is certain that this is going to
happen one day.
17. “We do reject the so-called “Biblical/Christian Counselling” of today (as taught by
Gary Collins, Larry Crabb, Frank Minirth, et al) that is influenced by Freudian or
humanistic methods which essentially question the sufficiency of Scriptures, and the
power of the Gospel.”
a. This brand of Christian counselling is not derived from the Bible but from psychology
and from Sigmund Freud who taught and advanced the idea that people’s
conscious thoughts and actions are driven by a powerful reservoir of repressed
memories no longer directly accessible to the conscious mind. Freud invented
psychoanalysis to uncover these hidden regions of the psyche through free association
and dream analysis.
b. Such psychological notions filter down into the church through writers such as
Larry Crabb, Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, Gary Collins, James Dobson, Charles
Solomon and many more psychologically trained individuals. People then read,
interpret and teach what they suppose is biblical, without recognising that their
presuppositions are from psychology rather than from Scripture.
c. It promotes the idea that professional counsellors are better able than pastors,
elders and other lay people, and that the Bible is not enough, to counsel Christians
who have deep personal and emotional problems. It also encourages people to put
the blame for their problems on their circumstances or on others, instead of bearing
it themselves.
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