Comments on: Jay E. Adams 1929 – 2020

By: Jim Keith

Jim Keith — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:17:28 +0000

Dear Family of Jay Adams,
Very much of my life has been majorly positively influenced through the life of Jay Adams. Practical points of counseling have made life easier and doable, without worry. Jay’s attack on secular bastions has helped me rest in my faith. Preaching and marriage books he has written have given me usable handles that i can grasp and bless others with. The tapes from classes did the same. I felt a huge step forward using the Four Step booklet. A sermon he gave relieved me of a persistent fear. I am so grateful for Jay and i look forward to giving him a high-5 in heaven.
With love,
Jim Keith

By: Nasser Alawi

Nasser Alawi — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:30:50 +0000

” His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”
Well done my teacher. You have been a blessing to the Kingdom of God, and your many students. You have been a great blessing to me and my wife. I have used what you taught me in ministering in the Holy Land. We are going to miss you, but you are going to be with your master, Jesus Christ, whom you have loved and served. Here on earth, we will continue to carry the the torch till we meet again.

Rev. Nasser & Jackie Alawi

By: Elizabeth Mitchell

Elizabeth Mitchell — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:10:18 +0000

During the most difficult part of my life, I listened to a series of tapes by Jay Adams.
They helped me to live by my responsibilities
rather then my feelings.

By: John Steenhof

John Steenhof — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:38:26 +0000

In reply to Bill Hill. Amen! Thank you Lord for your work in Jay Adams. His gain to be in heaven and the church's big loss. But as we speak you will raise other prophetic voices.

By: Rev. Tom Osterhaus

Rev. Tom Osterhaus — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:10:20 +0000

Jay was a mentor who taught me much about myself and the world. He never minced words and you always knew where he stood on whatever issue!

By: Walter Bjorck

Walter Bjorck — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:07:57 +0000

Jay Adams impacted my life first when I was a high school student. I heard his talk entitled “You Don’t Have to Worry” on a Christian radio station in New Jersey. A few years later as I studied at a Christian college, I began to be “convinced” that Jay Adams made major errors because he was not a psychologist. This made sense to me as an impressionable college student, but I began to notice the psychology professors had no workable way to “integrate” the Christian faith with psychologically based therapy perspectives.

A few years later in seminary, I decided to major in pastoral counseling. I often found Jay Adams’ ideas more sound than anything I was studying. While in seminary, and then during my first pastorate, I worked in three psychiatric in-patient hospital settings, and still could not integrate. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when one of the members of my little country church got admitted to the psychiatric hospital where I worked. In desperation, I called Jay Adams, who did not know me. Within a few minutes, the receptions had me on with him, who gave me a half hour on the phone. He encouraged me to take a ten-week training course in nouthetic counseling. This changed my life! I ended up leaving the psychiatric setting and starting two biblical counseling centers, one in Connecticut and one in New Hampshire.

Years later, Jay encouraged me when I was struggling with my son’s Mormon upbringing. I had lost custody of my son in a divorce.

Jay encouraged me again by phone a few years later when I struggled with the “Sonship” program which had been brought into a church where I was an assistant pastor. He wrote me into the book he was writing without mentioning my name.

I cannot adequately express my gratefulness to God for the life and ministry of Dr. Jay Adams.

By: Bruce Langford

Bruce Langford — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:46:43 +0000

I first met Jay years ago when he came to my church in Alabama to speak. I went on to attend WTS where he spoke a number of times before moving to Macon, GA. I moved there to teach school for a couple of years before getting a job with UPS. The afternoon leg of my route took me by the Millhouse where he and Betty Jane lived. It was there that I took a 15-minute break on countless occasions at his invitation. Those were really pleasant times with one who invested himself in people everywhere he went. Really sad to learn of his death, but I am glad to know he is in the home not made with hands and eternal in heaven.