This article focuses on Sigmund Freud’s presentation of the concept of resistance in Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Freud 1989c) and on James E. Dittes’s employment of this concept in The Church in the Way (Dittes 1967). It takes particular note of Freud’s view that the patient’s resistance may contribute to the success of the therapeutic process if skillfully handled by the therapist, as well as Dittes’s view that instead of condemning laypersons’ expressions of resistance, the minister should recognize that they are a sign of vitality and testify to laypersons’ skills, sensitivity, and commitment to the church and its fundamental purposes. The article concludes with a brief consideration of the relationship between resistance and resourcefulness (Capps 2014).