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Robert D. Jones

How Good Desires Go Bad

Journal of Biblical Counseling 24:2

In this article, Robert Jones introduces an illustration used in counseling that helps to show how to help those he counsels to understand their motives. Jones provides illustrations and explanations to the Throne-Cross-Staircase Diagram. Jones concludes that the point of the illustration is simple: As long as your desires for good things remain submitted to Jesus Christ, they are not only permissible, but proper.

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