Oh to be a Pastor instead of a Shrink.

Sometimes I hate that I am a psychologist rather than a pastor. What happens when a client has achieved his or her stated goals, yet has a fundamentally flawed theology? You terminate treatment. This person's theology isn't likely to cause them any problems temporally - it is quite adaptive, but wrong. Wherein lies the problem? Fundamentally it is a looking inward to feelings of peace rather than objective law and objective gospel. I think I'll be reading and posting in the near future on the glory and fallenness of the emotional system.