Of even greater concern to us however is how the modern day Christian church has been caught up with the prevailing interest in and reliance on psychology and counseling. Many of these have popular talk shows on radio and television. Huge counseling organizations, some with nation-wide networks, have been established. Thousands of books are coming off the Christian presses that focus on counseling and giving psychological advice for all the many problems of life in the modern day world. Seminaries all over the world are spending more of their efforts training men and women for counseling than for teaching a preaching the Word of God.
Many prominent churches have full time professional psychologists on their staff.
Many sermons preached today are little more than humanistic psychological pep talks rather than sound expositions of the Word of God. Sound doctrine is considered irrelevant and insignificant for the complex life of modern man with all its troubles. We believe sincerely in the need for the effectiveness of good Christian counseling. We believe that every pastor of the church of Jesus Christ is called and must be qualified to give such counseling. God's people need to be genuinely led to Christ and to the Word of God to find the true solution to life's many problems and solid comfort for life's sorrows and trials.