Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt - Unshakable Confidence in God's Word

In contrast to Paul’s joy and victory through Christ alone, many of today’s Christians put their trust in Christian psychology as well. Its false theories and therapies offer new comfort to the abused, confused, and depressed, making it the fastest growing and most monetarily profitable movement in the church. It is commonly accepted among evangelicals that God’s counsel in the Bible is deficient and needs to be supplemented with psychology.

We are plagued by the “yes, but” syndrome. Isn’t the Bible God’s inerrant Word? Yes, but…I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. Don’t we have the leading of the Holy Spirit, and Christ indwelling to guide and empower us? Yes, but…and silence. Was not the Word of God, the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and the indwelling Christ enough for suffering and martyred Christians during the first nineteen centuries of the church? Yes, but…the world is more complex today and we need additional help. The heroes and heroines of the faith mentioned in Hebrews 11 triumphed amidst fierce persecution without psychology. Yes, but…you don’t understand my situation…my children, my husband, my wife, my boss, the abuse I suffered as a child….

The issue is very simple: Either “all the counsel of God” is sufficient or God has failed us. If Christian psychology, inner healing, 12-step programs, and today’s other new techniques for deliverance truly have something of value to offer, then the Bible is deficient, and for 1,900 years God left His church without the insights and tools it needed. Who could believe that?