I want to confront a popular error head-on. Put briefly, this error is the systematic replacement of moral categories by psychological ones in the realm of decision-making. What do I mean? Just this: As you try to figure out how to handle your key relationships, you will hear a lot of psychobabble from the world. You will hear the words "self-care," "abuse," "expectations," and "emotional needs" thrown around as the basis for an awful lot of advice — or should I say, as the basis for a lot of awful advice? You see, brothers and sisters, we are here in Exodus 20 looking at the law of God. Why am I spending a whole month of Sundays (four sermons) introducing this key text? Because though the law is written on our hearts, we tend to mess up in applying it. This is partly because we have a vested interest in misinterpreting and misapplying it. It's also because our intellects are fallen and we live in the midst of a people of unclean lips. I have talked to members of this congregation who evaluate their relationships primarily in psychological terms and whose moral decision-making has psychological categories in the driver's seat. Brothers and sisters, that is flat-out wrong. In today's sermon, I intend with God's help to make a case for why the Christian ought to evaluate and manage his relationships in terms of moral categories, not psychological categories. There is nothing wrong in principle with the discipline of psychology. Though my title is "refuting psychology," I am not opposed to the discipline as such. What I, and God Almighty, are opposed to is the misuse of psychology, and particularly the substituting of psychology for God's law.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
