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