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Nouthetic Counseling Discipline

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Discipline in the Nouthetic context may have two meanings. The first is the pastorally applied censure of the counselor upon the counselee, attempting to reform and restructure damaging and dangerous areas of life that have been colonized by sinful thought patterns and wrong habits. The second is the “self-discipline” of practitioners, who, after fallowing the nouthetic counseling method, learn how to handle life problems biblical, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit and with their own motivation - what the Scripture calls “maturity” in the faith. The whole goal for instilling godly habits in the nouthetic process of confrontation and rebuke is in keeping the disciple accountable is that they might learn to practice spiritual hygiene -

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