Perhaps the distressed person does not know how to swim or, knowing, simply does not have enough strength to make it to shore. Our professional lifeguards, it seems, do not know how to swim themselves. To be sure, they have been given extensive training in many lifesaving techniques, all of which have been tested in the children's pool. But they do not know how to swim themselves. They cannot save another because, given the same circumstances, they could not save themselves.
Christian psychology is the application of Scripture to life's problems.
When you discipline your child, you are doing Christian psychology. When you worship God, you are doing Christian psychology. When you think about drugs, alcoholism, or homosexuality, you should be doing Christian Psychology. Confusion arises between Christian psychology and secular psychology because of the medical model. This model states that most of life's problems can be reduced to biochemical abnormalities.