Love In Action: The Healing Heritage Of The Counseling Ministry Of The Church

"As a Methodist pastor I am rivited by this fascinating book by Rev. Dr. Mary Jonson exploring the 'Healing Heritage of The Counseling Ministry Of The Church' . This book is a monumental achievement and offers a fresh integrated perspective for anyone interested in Holistic Healing, counseling, or pastoral counseling. Ministers, counselors, nurses, physicians, therapists, pastors, social workers, and lay people will find this superb scholarly work both a page turner AND an invaluable guide and lively practical resource for diverse healing ministries. I cannot reccomend it enough! A must book for your library! "
-Pastor E. Davis, MTS, M.Div.

"Dr. Johnson offers a lifetime of practical experience, research, insight, and impressive scholarly study in this pioneering work that brings together vast areas of knowledge into an integrated whole offering vital practical and theoretical skills. It has influenced both my life and healing vocation deeply."-Carolyn Barber, RN

"Love In Action" is a pioneering work bringing a Holistic perspective on Healing to the field of Pastoral Counseling, Pastoral Care, and Clinical Christian Mental Health Counseling. This incredible book offers both essential information and great wisdom for any one intersted in this area and is an invaluable resource for both experts or beginners in this field. Both practical advice and extensive original academic research lay out a basis, plan, and purpose for healing that is both holistic, Holy Spirit infused, and transforming. Anyone will be richly rewarded by the knowledge and expertise contained in this profound yet practical work written by an experienced pastor and expert clinical Christian psychotherapist. A "must" resource for all- including any pastors who are interested in the practical, theoretical, biblical and spiritual dimensions of healing."-Pastor Eric Johanson

"I have always felt the healing presence of God in nature", says the author of "Love In Action", Rev. Dr. Johnson."We live in an age that desperately needs a new understanding of both healing and counseling. In my experience the Bible reflects the powerful holistic healing reality of Christ in creation and our own lives in many pivotal passages including one that inspired the final completion of this book: 'Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God .....On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit in season. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations' (Revelation 22:1-2)."