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This is to clarify the Christian counseling through a narrative counseling method. The role of Christian counseling is to reframe through reinterpretation of a client’s traumatic narrative. This is to clarify the Christian applications through understanding of narrative counseling in Christian counseling. Narrative counseling is due to therapeutic approach through storytelling to a client. The Holy Spirit is able to reinterpret a client’s break narrative. So, both a Counselor and a client ought to depend on the Holy Spirit in order to take reinterpretation. The Holy Spirit can make a narrative of despair to a narrative of hope, a narrative of frustration to a narrative of salvation, and a meaningless narrative to meaning narrative. Accordingly, narrative counseling method is very effective in Christian counseling through a metaphor. A metaphor is a method to exposure a client’s inner situation without resistance indirectly. Also, narrative counseling is great method to understand/analyze a client’s inner situation. In view point of Christian counseling, narrative counseling is based on the Bible. There are a lot of narratives in the Bible. The researcher dealt with theoretical background of narrative counseling, main notion including definition of narrative counseling, therapeutic effectiveness of narrative counseling, of methods of narrative counseling in this research.