Tabletalk: Over the course of your life, what have you found to be your most significant ministry focus? Why?
Jay Adams: As I look back on sixty-plus years of
ministry, I suspect that the ministry focus on exegesis has more than
anything else been the most significant one. It was my interest from my
seminary and college years and has been ever since. That’s why I majored
in Greek. I have wanted to know for myself what God’s Word teaches, not
what someone else says about it.
Secondarily, I would mention the importance of sound systematic
theology. A combination of these two disciplines, in particular, kept me
from going off base when I began counseling and began to write about
it. Few who have focused on counseling apart from such a background (and
such concerns) have been able to maintain a steady, true, doctrinal
foundation for doing their “biblical” counseling. This scripturally
oriented basis for ministry of all forms is what has made the difference
throughout the years.
TT: How did your counseling background affect your pastoral ministry? Continue at
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