How People Change
by Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp
The heat, thorns, cross, fruit model: circumstances (heat), sinful responses (thorns), Christ's work (cross), and new responses (fruit). The clearest single model in the biblical counselling tradition.
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you want a usable model of change you can draw on a napkin.
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Three things you will actually use
- Heat, thorns, cross, fruit.
- Circumstances reveal; they do not cause.
- Change is a redemption, not a reform.
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Draw the model and map one recent struggle onto it.
Our verdict
The napkin model.
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