Pillar 2: Scripture-based

In my practice, the Bible has more authority and validity than psychology and other human-based perspectives. Although I highly value my training in psychology and the scientific method, and employ it daily in my practice, I view people's emotional and relational problems through the lens of God's Word. Being scripture-based does not minimize psychology; rather it means that a good and sound psychology must be based upon the Biblical view of human beings and their problems. The Bible describes us as fallen creatures in need of redemption through Jesus Christ alone. Therefore, I place more dependency on the Bible than I do in the sciences in which I have been trained. Science provides only partial truth, while the Bible provides full and absolute truth. Here's an illustration of what I mean:

Author Stephen Covey once spoke to large audiences on college campuses around the nation, where students are still taught, to this day, that truth is a relative, and not absolute. The idea of "relative truth" basically goes like this: truth is a matter of public opinion or something we can pick and choose as "our truth," as from a cafeteria menu. In order to demonstrate the absurdity of this belief (and yes, people with high IQs and university degrees can have absurd beliefs), Dr. Covey asked the college students to simply close there eyes for a moment and point north. Then he asked the students to hold their hands and fingers in that position as they opened their eyes. When they opened their eyes, they saw a sea of hands pointing in all possible directions. Who was right? Only those few who pointed to true north, in the same direction as the compass point did. Ultimately, there is absolute truth, in the same way that there is true north. God provides that truth through the Bible, our compass.