EP. 16 Humankind & Counseling Part 3: New Heart, New War - Cultivating The New Man

Episode Notes:   A biblical anthropology rooted in the gospel completely rewires human psychology from the way we think and to our affections. In counseling, we’re not trying to better the old man, but rather, we’re trying to cultivate the new man.  Humanism’s anthropology is to try and better the old man, which cannot accomplish what it sets out to do.  Gospel driven counseling is set to cultivate the new man as described by scripture.  Loyalty war that rages within, the fight for worship. The flesh is set on worshiping creation and self, where the spirit is set on having us worship God.  The Holy Spirit is at work in us to transform our desires, and to set them upon The LORD.  The hierarchy of needs model is a passive heart approach, but a biblical model says the heart will elevate an appropriate desire to an inappropriate level rendering them even sinful.  Episode Resources: Ed Welch Paul Tripp  St. Augustin Martin Luther James K. A. Smith You Are What You Love Johnathan Edwards - The Freedom of the will Abraham Maslow - Hierarchy of needs