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Anxiety makes the world around us shrink. We can see so few things except what is causing us, at that moment, to be anxious. I have often thought that what folks struggling with anxiety need is to be captured by a bigger vision of life. This is true not just of anxiety, but of all sin, temptation, and struggle. To help folks catch that vision, however, requires more than just information. It requires engaging their imagination. Effective counsel connects with people at the level of their imaginations.

Most of the folks I counsel know what their problem is, and even what they need to do about it. There are, of course, exceptions, but most Christians who study the Bible regularly and attend weekly worship are well aware of what they should be doing about their sin and temptation. The problem with most of us is not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of passion. Like the Bible college graduate who was cheating on his wife, we know truth but we don't love it. Michael Emlet has keenly observed:

Remember why your counselee struggles to change. The issue usually isn't an information gap, but a desire/practice gap...Mere insight never changes anyone. People don't change, not because they lack information, but because they lack imagination that leads to action. Their desires are misdirected and stunted. ("Practice Makes Perfect?")

Right beliefs are important, but apart from right passion they won't amount to change. We need to engage the imagination.

In practice this means helping people to renew their passions for God, not simply to hate their sin. This is why worship is such a necessary part of Biblical Counsel. People who are not regularly engaged in worship, both individually and corporately with the church, will not find the strength to change. As we participate in looking beyond our small lives to the glory of God and His Kingdom our vision for something bigger than our experience emboldens us to new life. The Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers spoke of the "expulsive power of a new affection," by which he meant the power of renewed love for Christ to drive out a desire for sin. One love squeezes out the other. Jesus tells us plainly, "you cannot love God and money" (Matt. 6:24). So how do we fight the temptation to be greedy? By cultivating a greater desire for God. It works this way with all sin.

I have seen this work particularly with young men who struggle with pornography. It is not enough simply to give young men strategies for saying no to porn. Computer software may prove helpful to cutting off access, but if the heart does not desire Jesus more than sexual pleasure, men will find a way around the best software. Furthermore, if we only ever focus on fighting the temptation to look at porn, we may end up, inadvertently, focusing a whole lot on porn. Men who try to fight porn by thinking constantly about not looking at porn don't often succeed. But men who fight porn by focusing their hearts on worshipping Christ have greater strength to say no to temptation.

And worship is particularly powerful at cultivating new imaginations. Take for example, music. We don't just sing of Christ's death, we picture it. We don't just repeat the words, "My God is mighty to save," we proclaim them with joy! Worship is a great means to changing heart desire. As a counselor I want to utilize worship, both corporate and private, to help my counselee make progress. Michael Emlet quotes James K.A. Smith when he says:

Worship stokes the imagination through its earthy, bodily practices - kneeling, standing, singing, head bowing, clapping, and tasting bread and wine. In short, "worship forms us and aims us because its concrete, material practices catch hold of our imagination. This is why worship is more like art than science, more like literature than logic. Worship is fundamentally aesthetic, not didactic."

As a counselor, then, I don't want to simply give instruction: fill out this worksheet, read these verses, journal your temptations. I want to cultivate an imagination for God. This means I want my counselee to experience God, to be captured by His vision of the world. To that end I might have my counselee sing. I might urge her to write out a prayer to God. I might instruct her to do a specific act of service which takes her out of her own mind and her own anxieties and opens her to see the world of God's Kingdom beyond herself.

Counselors can engage imaginations in a number of tangible ways. One of the best might be storytelling, but there are surely other ways. I witnessed a gifted counselor even this last week communicate truth through a very simple and crude drawing. It was a helpful illustration that fueled me and captured my attention, I suspect it was helpful to the counselees too. Todd Hardin provides a specific case study here that illustrates the value and importance of the imagination in counseling. However we do it the key to remember is that counselors cannot simply give information and think this will promote change.

Change comes as we are captured by a passion for God and His Kingdom. To be the most help that we can be, then, Biblical Counselors must engage the imagination. Our worlds are too small, being captured by a bigger more glorious vision is what we need to change.

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On Friday, the 15 of February 2019, President Donald Trump of the United States of America declared a national emergency in El Paso, Texas to free up government funds for the ever-prominent border wall. Trump cited the current situation in El Paso as well as his rally, which led him to make this controversial move.

Members of the Republican and Liberal parties alike have deemed this decision as an inequitable use of power, hence the extensive controversy that has surrounded the issue in the time following the event. According to the El Paso Times, Trump demanded about $5.7 billion USD for the construction of a wall on the border, claiming that "'We're going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we're going to do it one way or another.'"

However, my friends, how do we know that this is the right way to confront the security plights plaguing our border? Perhaps one source may say that we are making the correct decision, but others might say otherwise. As the Chinese proverb says, "There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth." We know only the knowledge that is passed down to us through a series of journalists and reporters vying for the public's attention, and they can only tell us so much of what they see and hear- and from their eyes only.

The closest one can ever come to a situation's truth is to see it for themselves, however. My private high school recently made the decision to utilize the resources that fortune has presented us with to take a group of students into the 'belly of the beast'- El Paso, Texas. The home of the Mexico-USA border, and home of today's turmoil.
The Journey's Roadmap
Upon hearing of this golden opportunity, I eagerly signed the necessary papers to participate in this enthralling experience. 23 students in total were selected from the interested student body, with the resulting group being mainly comprised of 11th-grade students, with a few 10th graders (Me!) and 9th graders mixed in. The trip's itinerary provided a diverse assemblage of volunteering opportunities aiding immigrants in the process of seeking asylum, as well as educational presentations on the topic of immigration.

Through this, not only was I able to verify and disprove some previously reported "facts" on the immigration issues facing our country today through the informational presentations and experiences that I participated in, but I was able to see the arguably equally significant side of the situation- the human side. Facts, figures, and statistics can make for article after article, and breakthrough after breakthrough- but just as well, the face of a despaired, sobbing child separated from his or her parent can speak volumes not to our minds- but our hearts.
At The Fence
Many groups of El Paso citizens attended Trump's previously mentioned rally pertaining to the wall's construction, one of which was a particularly pertinent posse- the U.S. Border Patrol. While this gives many readers and viewers of the daily news the impression that our security is in absolute favor of the wall's construction, I heard what they truly believed- straight from the source themselves.

I spoke with one officer in particular, yet for the sake of his privacy, I will address him by his surname- Martinez. Martinez stated that in New York City, which has a land area of 302.6 miles squared, there are a total of 38,422 police officers. He went on to say, "We cover about 125,000 square miles of land out here, and at the moment, we only have 1800 officers on this." In other words, considering the sheer land mass and the amount of danger presented in the land the border patrol officers currently cover, they are severely understaffed- which can especially be seen when comparing the ratio of officers to square miles of land in New York City to that of El Paso.

According to Martinez, the current fence on the southern border is made of 18-foot high steel pillars, built with reinforced concrete for strength and structural integrity. Currently, the fence does not go all the way around the border, however, Martinez stated. When prompted if the fence has proved to be helpful thus far, Martinez and his co-workers explained that while the fence fails to keep a lot of people and contraband out of the country, it is quite helpful to keep out one thing in specific- vehicles.

Vehicles had previously been utilized in the transportation of large groups of people, drugs, and other forms of potentially hazardous contraband. However, the fence has been a major aid in the prevention of such vehicles from entering, thus making the job of border patrol officers like Martinez a bit easier.

In addition, Martinez stated that the fence has succeeded in slowing down the entrance of people and goods in general, acting as a sort of troublesome obstacle to hinder the speed of those attempting to illegally enter. However, that is not to say that a fence or wall is the proper solution to the current border crisis. According to the border patrol officers we spoke with, it is not to be known as an end-all solution, or a foolproof way to impact the flow of illegal immigrants, but simply as an obstacle designed to give the border patrol teams more response time, therefore making it slightly easier to apprehend the immigrants in question.

However, while this is all perfectly beneficial for keeping out contraband and/or dangerous men and women, what about those who are simply seeking asylum from a home of peril and fear? Those who want nothing more than a chance at a better life for them and their loved ones? According to Martinez once again, in the past few years, one amount has spiked in particular- the number of families trying to enter the United States of America.

In other words, America, a fence can only do so much to keep danger at bay. We aim to divide our people from danger...but at the cost of dividing our people from theirs?

There's plenty more to this story, dear readers. Look out for Part 2 to see what else is truly happening at America's southern border. Thank you for reading!

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On Friday, the 15 of February 2019, President Donald Trump of the United States of America declared a national emergency in El Paso, Texas to free up government funds for the ever-prominent border wall. Trump cited the current situation in El Paso as well as his rally, which led him to make this controversial move.