#92 Review Motives: Why Do I Do the Things I Do

Review

This booklet explored the myriad of motives behind our actions. Connecting our motives to the reality of God. This booklet may be used as an outline or tool for exploring issues of the heart. To understand why as Paul put it “for what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate” (Romans 7:15). 

Motives may be a valuable tool in understanding our motives and the motives of others. This can be used in a pastoral counseling setting to explore the motives of the counselee. This small fifty-six page booklet is divided into seven parts for ease of understanding. 

In the first few parts Welch explains what motives are and what some of the motives you might have are. Going on to confront idols of the heart and how to make a heart change. 

Application

In a counseling context this could be assigned as reading for a week and talked about together or explored together over the course of 1-2 sessions. As a reading assignment it could be that the counselee reads the text and identifies their motives and then in the session talks about heart change. Or it could be used in two sessions in the first session identifying motives and the second making heart change. 

Overall Why Do I Do the Things I Do? by Edward T. Welch is a helpful resource for pastoral counseling. 

Resources

It can be read for free here: https://thechapelblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/f6853-motives-by-welch.pdf 
Or copies can be ordered here: https://www.amazon.com/Motives-Things-Resources-Changing-Lives/dp/0875526926