Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners: Loving Others as God Loves Us

by Michael R. Emlet

Overview

A friend feels rejected. A counselee is angry. A church member's child is ill. You want to help, but where do you begin? Author and counselor Michael R. Emlet outlines a model of one-another ministry based on how God sees and loves his people primarily as saints, while bringing comfort to the sufferer, and faithfully speaking truth to the sinner.

Filled with everyday illustrations as well as counseling examples, Emlet demonstrates what it looks like to approach fellow believers simultaneously as saints, sufferers, and sinners. Emlet unpacks Scripture and draws on his many years of counseling experience to help counselors, pastors, and friends love others wisely and well.

As part of CCEF's Helping the Helper series, this guide for ministry provides an overall framework for wisely helping any person by loving others in the same way that God loves us.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186001379
Publisher:	New Growth Press
Publication date:	01/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Michael R. Emlet, MDiv, MD, practiced as a family physician for over ten years before becoming a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF). He is the author of the books CrossTalk: Where Life & Scripture Meet and Descriptions and Prescriptions: A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications and the minibooks Autism Spectrum Disorder, Chronic Pain, Angry Children, Help for the Caregiver, and Overeating: When Enough Isn't Enough.

Editorial Reviews

In this Scripture-saturated book, Michael Emlet uses real-life counseling interactions and insights gained from years of counseling and training counselors to demonstrate how we can love, listen to, grieve with, challenge, and accept the people around us in ways that befit the gospel of the grace of Jesus.

Author of Saints & Scoundrels in the Story of Jesus and The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids - Nancy Guthrie

Dr. Michael Emlet has given us a treasure. He's primarily focused on how we relate to others through the triple lens of saint, sufferer, and sinner. He's particularly strong at blending those lenses together. The result? You can begin to look at and treat people as fully human. His experience as a counselor grounds his thoroughly biblical insights in real life. This immensely helpful book isn't just for counselors—it's for all of Jesus's followers.

Author of A Praying Life and?J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life - Paul Miller

This book will give you a fuller view of yourself and those you love. It is clear, helpful, gentle, and wise, which just happens to be the way I would describe Mike.

Author of When People Are Big and God Is Small and Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love - Edward T. Welch