"Gospel-centered counseling seeks to answer the questions, 'What is wrong with us?' and 'What can be done to help?' by intentionally applying Scripture in a balanced way, recognizing both what the gospel declares about us and what it demands of us. Counseling that...

  Underneath all of our behavioral sins lies a fundamental refusal to rest in Christ’s salvation. According to Martin Luther: All those who do not at all times trust God and . . . trust in his favor, grace and good-will, but seek his favor in other things or in themselves, do not...