My Therapist is Christ on behalf of Me

Over the course of the last six months I’ve been seeing a therapist. Besides trusting Jesus with my life, marrying Karla and a few other biggies, going to therapy has been one of the best decisions of my life. After my first session, I texted a friend “I love therapy! It’s safe, freeing, affirming, enlightening, redeeming . . . I guess I really needed it – I should’ve gone sooner!”I believe the work of a Christian therapist is what Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together named “Christ on my behalf”. My Christian counselor’s “Christ in him” is stronger than the “Christ in me”. He speaks the word of Christ over me and leads me to announce definitively the Word of Christ in me. I’m thankful for Scott Gibson at Compass Counseling in Barrington, IL and Jonathan d. den hartog in Denver. And I’m thankful for my friend Jay Brandenburg-Nau at Christ Community Church who connected me to Scott and Jonathan.