Who benefits from a book like this? Anyone counseling troubled people, anyone discipling others for Christ, parents who want faith-building conversations with their children, and any Christian committed to serving others through the Word of God.

Wayne Mack sets out eight stages - his eight I's - for helping a counselee overcome struggles both practical and spiritual and become a faithful disciple of Jesus. The approach is thoroughly Scripture-based and unusually concrete about what to do next, which is what separates it from books that describe biblical counseling without teaching anyone to do it.