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Wayne Mack

Wayne Mack lives in Pretoria, South Africa, where he serves as a pastor-elder with his son-in-law and teaches biblical counseling at Strengthening Ministries Training Institute to pastors and aspiring pastors in the region. He also spends about six weeks in the USA teaching at various churches. He and his wife, Carol, have four adult children and numerous grandchildren.
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Using psychology for soul-care is like dressing cancer with Band-Aids. It may temporarily relieve the pain or even mask the symptoms, but it will never penetrate the issues of the heart like God’s Word.
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A coward lives by his feelings. They dominate him. He’s emotionally up and down, depending on how he feels that day. The coward is not as concerned about what is true as he is about what is easy. He will gladly exchange truth for comfort. He’s always taking the safe path, the easy way out. He backs away from challenges. He is always hedging his bets. He’s a fence rider. He tries to live for both Christ and himself at the same time, but when there is a choice to be made, he chooses himself over Christ every time. When opposed, he compromises the truth. The courageous person lives by principle. His feelings may go up and down, but he doesn’t allow them to control his choices. In fact, he often has to act despite his feelings. That’s what we see in Paul. Paul
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That’s the distinction. It’s not wrong to be distressed, to be troubled, to be frightened, or to have those emotions. It is wrong when those emotions control you. It’s wrong when your anguish is not in keeping with the facts clearly given to you in Scripture. That’s what Jesus was telling these disciples. Do not allow your distress to keep you from thinking biblically about your situation.
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The root meaning of phobo, the Greek term for fear, is “flight.” That’s the nature of fear. Fear causes us to run away from things that frighten us. And fear becomes sinful when it causes us to run away from the things God has commanded us to do. In
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No matter how many steps you have taken away from God, it’s only one step back.
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If you are going to be calm in the midst of chaos, there’s something you must stop doing. When life gets difficult, when it feels as though you are being squeezed by the pressures all around you, you must refuse to panic. Jesus was not telling His disciples they were not
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Our fears are due to our failure to stir up, a failure to think, a failure to take ourselves in hand. You find yourself looking to the future and then you begin to imagine things and you say: “I wonder what is going to happen?” And then your imagination runs away with you. You are gripped by the thing; you do not stop to remind yourself of who and what you are, this thing overwhelms you and you go down. Now the first thing you need to do is take a firm grip of yourself, and speak to yourself. As the Apostle puts it, we have to remind ourselves of certain things. . . . The big thing Paul is saying to Timothy is, “Timothy, you seem to be thinking about yourself and your life and all you have to do as if you are still an ordinary person. But Timothy, you are not an ordinary person. You are a Christian, you have the Spirit of God within
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pecado se le llama enfermedad, por eso la gente piensa que lo que necesita es terapia y no arrepentimiento. Al pecado común se le llama conducta adictiva o compulsiva, y muchos suponen que la solución está en un tratamiento médico más que en la corrección moral
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«No hay ninguna cosa ni situación que pueda sobrevenir a un creyente en esta vida que no halle en las Escrituras una regla general y esa regla es iluminada con ejemplo»
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Al pecado se le llama enfermedad, por eso la gente piensa que lo que necesita es terapia y no arrepentimiento. Al pecado común se le llama conducta adictiva o compulsiva, y muchos suponen que la solución está en un tratamiento médico más que en la corrección moral27.
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No debe haber en estos momentos amenaza más seria para la vida de la Iglesia que la estampida por abrazar las doctrinas de la psicología secular. Estas son una mezcla de ideas humanas que Satanás ha colocado en la iglesia como si fueran verdades de Dios capaces de cambiar la vida.
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What God calls evil can slowly begin to appear normal-even good.
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The slightest departure from absolute obedience to God's law is sin.
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Wayne Mack advises that if he is truly repentant, he will manifests the following: • He is willing to call it—sin. • He is willing to accept personal responsibility for all his sinful and unbiblical thoughts, choices, and actions. • He understands the seriousness and horrendous nature of his sin. • He shows a concern about heart sins (his attitudes, desires, motivations) as well as behavioral sins (Matthew 5: 27-32; James 4: 8). • He is willing to turn to Christ for the forgiveness of his sins and is willing to be saved by the grace of God alone. • He displays a sincere desire to be free from sin itself, not just the problems caused by sin. • He is willing to commit himself to obeying and serving God rather than self, and he takes the Lordship of Christ seriously. • He is willing to work on changing the things in his life and marriage that are displeasing to God (Luke 3: 7-14; 2 Corinthians 7: 9-11; 1 Thessalonians 1: 9-10).
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