Religious Values In Social Work

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Being loved by God, many social workers naturally choose social work as their profession, these christians wish to to share the same love God provides for them to others who are in need. These christian social workers share this love with people who are poor, or troubled, or if a person is just in need of some talking to.

Lucas kicks off this book by saying; Secular social work and religion obviously share a number values (Lucas Ch1). Lucas claims that is what made it possible for a christian such as Father Biestek to write about social work values in a way that is acceptable to any social worker, secular or religious. This also brings up people like Father Swithun Bowers, who once called this a “God-given right” (Lucas Ch1), also with Paul Halmos in the picture, who pointed out, “The faith of counselors” in this very book. Lucas believes that social work itself developed in the Christian church and the Synagogue, he explains that up until the last quarter of the nineteenth century nearly all social work was under or had something to do with religious beliefs or religious influences.

The christian social worker looks for signs of grace in a person, he or she rejoices them. As a christian social worker, he or she does not see people as naturally good or
When clients come in for help, especially children or underaged teens, you must know that the bible is not about disciplining them, it 's about the mighty acts of God (Lucas 18). Many christians believe that the bible is God 's actual words (Lucas 17) , but professional social work has rejected the notion of sin or more of the use of that word (Lucas

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