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In the 1960s, British Christian psychiatrist Frank Lake noted in his book Clinical Theology that, “pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered as well as with the sins we have committed” (emphasis added). The modern biblical counseling movement has made tremendous strides in the past several decades in addressing both sin and suffering. Most...