Allison Bailey

“This again highlights the issue of sustainability for churches starting a counseling ministry. You must think of the care and longevity of the helpers you train”
― Brad Hambrick, Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care

“But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself: for you have learned your driving in a hard school.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“consider this statement from David Powlison: “The task in any ministry moment is to choose [and] emphasize . . . a truth for the sake of relevant application to particular persons and situations. You can’t say everything all at once—and you shouldn’t try. Say one relevant thing at a time.”
― Lauren Whitman, A Biblical Counseling Process: Guidance for the Beginning, Middle, and End

“Joe Rigney is not against empathy—the ability to appreciate and respect the feelings of another—but he does take issue with untethered empathy—an emotive connection that exceeds and overpowers reality and good judgment.”
― Joe Rigney, The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits