Charles Solomon's book shows the role that rejection plays in the development of mental and emotional symptoms of which depression is perhaps the most common. The second half of the book concentrates on the dynamics of "Spirituotherapy.
Charles R. Solomon, EdD, was born in east Tennessee and received his BS at East Tennessee State University in 1951. Moving to Baltimore and then to Denver while working in the aerospace industry, he received his master's degree at the University of Colorado (1969) and was able to design his doctorate in a spiritual approach to counseling at the University of Northern Colorado in 1972.
Dr. Solomon and his wife, Sue - with whom he is writing a book on the history of GFI - live in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and have three children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandson. He founded Grace Fellowship International (GFI) in 1969, and there have been many spin-off ministries and publications by various authors since that time.
He developed and pioneered a Christ-centered approach to counseling in 1967, and he left industry to begin a full-time faith ministry in 1970. His first book, Handbook to Happiness (Tyndale), was written in 1971; it has been the flagship book in the exchanged-life movement. Handbook to Happiness has been translated into 7 languages and is scheduled to be translated into 12 or more this year; a condensation of chapter 2 has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Handbook to Happiness and Solomon's subsequent nine books and numerous articles are being used around the world in counseling and discipleship, with works established in India, South Africa, Kenya, Romania, Ukraine, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.
This is a book for mature Christians. As a sensitive being, I have witnessed direct and indirect struggle with life in this world. Having passed through the health care system and having been reborn in Christ, I can vouch for the very fact that the health care system is broken and causes many to buy in to their diagnosed disease, thereby unknowingly becoming victims to the satanic world views on healing. As a new Christian, I am saved and rely on God, the Holy Spirit and In Jesus’ name I now have the power to cast out the demons that shake the very foundation of my ability to serve God’s will. Being forced to follow the worlds version of healing through my employer, I am thrilled to have been gifted the book Handbook to Happiness and the Ins and Out of Rejection. Two fabulous books for anyone who wants to get off the worlds healing train and get on Christ’s train. He is the only way folks!
Very thorough in the different categories and stages of believers coming to the point of identifying with Christ’s death by going through their own death to self-identification then, walking out a new identity in Christ in order to fulfill the work of Christ through the power of His resurrection. This is all vital to living a complete and whole victorious life, complete and total surrender to the Lordship of Jesus letting go of your will to choose your own path, own method of accomplishing your own goals or His, and allowing Him to walk you through a personal earthly life-long process of complete transformation and maintenance of a Holy Spirit led and surrendered life.
Everyone has faced a form of rejection and every parent has a high potential to either overtly or covertly reject their own children. I would say this is a must-read for anyone. It opens your eyes to areas of emotional pain that you may not have known you had.
I suggest section 1 chapters 1-3; and section 2 chapter 4-9.
I was required to read it for a biblical counseling class.
Take your time and really hear what the author is saying. It will change your life and spur you in to action. To God be the Glory for great things He has done.
This book explains a lot as to why we are in the emotional state we are in, and shows us how to recuperate from the damage that has been so drastically decaying the fabric of our being. Thank you Mr. Solomon for your insight.
This is a must read for those in,out,beside,and with any ministry that is true to the word of God. It's important to read the first book Handbook to Happiness.
As a person who had dealt with PBA (Performance Based Acceptance) this book will very influential in helping me identify my areas of rejection and how to move past them.