A biblical counseling course at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary helped cement in my mind the power of the Gospel and the Bible to address man’s deepest needs. By this, I mean every need. All of them. Every last one.
Viewing oneself as a fallen sinner who has rebelled against a perfect and all-powerful Creator and then [...]
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Does the Gospel address man’s deepest psychological needs? I’m staking my ministry/life on it
Are your church’s ministries coherent or discombobulated?
Discipleship funnel
In an earlier post, I presented notes from a presentation[1] I heard arguing that the entire local church is a counseling ministry (with counseling defined as ministering the Word).
The idea is that every ministry of a church is about the work of counseling, or discipleship, with the church’s official counseling ministry providing intensive discipleship.
Because [...]
Biblical counseling is not… biblical counseling is…
Five things that biblical counseling is not and five things that it is:
Biblical counseling is not:
Using the Bible as a magic formula/prescription.
Some people think biblical counseling equals doling out Bible verses and passages like a doctor gives prescriptions: take this and you will feel better [...]
‘Does your church HAVE a counseling ministry or IS your church a counseling ministry?’
I recently listened to a presentation with this title given by Steve Viars, pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lafayatte, Ind., at the 2002 National Association of Neuthetic Counselors (NANC) conference.
NoutheteĊ is a Greek word meaning, “the training by the word, whether of encouragement, or, if necessary, by reproof” (”An Expository Dictionary of New Testament [...]