Being A Christian Helping Professional Essay

Does being a Christian affect how a helping professional perceives their role in helping others? I believe that being a helping professional from a Christian perspective entails understanding God and His purpose for humanity. Humans were created by God to be His representatives on earth. A Christian helping professional realizes that God created humanity in His image with the ability for us to seek and worship Him. As a Christian, helping others needs to be approached from a holistic standpoint, meaning we care about our client’s mental, physical, and spiritual being (Boivin, 1991). God cannot be compartmentalized when helping others, instead His presence is part of the whole healing process. We cannot be whole if part of us is still unhealthy, this includes our spiritual being as well. We can help others with their mental or physical problems, but until we address our client’s spiritual wellbeing the healing process will never be complete.
As a Christian, I must understand the nature of God and the nature of humans in order to help others. Having a good understanding of psychological techniques is important, but as a Christian helper I must also understand the teachings of the Old and New Testament, apologetics and Christian ethics (Collins &Tornquist, 1981). In order to help others I must first have an understanding of who God is and an understanding of the plans He has for us. God is our loving Father who created us for fellowship in the image of Himself. As Christians, it is our desire to be obedient to our heavenly Father. God desires our fellowship with Him to extend to those around us. Christian ethics is an important part of being a Christian helping professional. We must understand what is right and wrong in God’s eyes and not participate or help another participate in something that is morally