The Résumé of a Biblical Counselor

Want to Change Lives?

Are You Milton Berle or Ed Sullivan?

Lap One: Envisioning

Envisioning: Jointly Creating the MVP-C Envisioning Word Picture: “Go!” Are You Running in the Right Direction?— Core Values

Lap Two: Enlisting

Enlisting: Mobilizing Ministers by… Enlisting Word Picture: Mr. Potato Head Are the Right Runners Running the Right Laps?—Committed People

Lap Three: Equipping

Equipping: Transformational Coaching Equipping Word Picture: Not a Brain Dump Is Every Race Participant a Skilled Runner? —Coached People

Lap Four: Empowering

Empowering: Leaving a Legacy/Loving Leaders Empowering Word Pictures: Spinning Plates and the Elephant in the Room Are the Runners Running on All Cylinders?— Comprehensive Strategy

Equipping Godly Ministers for MinistryPreparing for the Race

Imagine you were forwarding your résumé to the Divine Counselor. What characteristics would you highlight to demonstrate your qualifications to be a biblical counselor?

Where We’re Headed

So what do we do with these folks??? What’s our goal? How do we get there? What does an equipped BC look like?

The Big Picture

Me: My First Day… A boy in his Dad’s over-sized suit.

Competent to Counsel

The Sufficiency of Christianity And the Survey Says…

The Apostle Paul and theOrdinary, Average Christian in Rome

Romans 15:14 “I myself am convinced,

my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness,

complete in knowledge,and competent to instruct

one another.”

The “4Cs” of Biblical Counseling Equipping

Character: “Full of Goodness” Content: “Complete in Knowledge” Competence: “Competent to Instruct” Community: “Brothers”/“One Another”

Christ-Like Character

“Goodness”: Agathos—Gal. 5:22-23 Biblical Goodness: Grace Relationships The powerful SF reflects and relates like the Ultimate SF—Jesus

Christ-Like Character

“Full”: Overflowing The person who is good at relating to God will be good at relating to others. Competence without character is like one corpse practicing cosmetic surgery on another corpse.

Biblical Content/Conviction

“Complete” Claims our entire being. Captured by God’s Truth.

Biblical Content/Conviction

“Knowledge” Information + Application = Transformation Philippians 1:9-11 1 Thessalonians 2:8

Counseling Competence

“Competent”: Dunamenoi Power to Accomplish a Mission Ability: Capability, Resources…

Counseling Competence

Nouthetic Parakaletic

Christian Community

“Brothers/One Another” One-Another Context

Comprehensive: 4Cs/4H

Running the Race: For Discussion and Application

If one of the 4Cs de-emphasized? Over-emphasized? Omitted?

Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

Truth to Life/Truth in Love

Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

Transformational Student-Oriented Teaching Training Transformational Small-Group Lab- Oriented Training

Meeting for 4C Equipping

How to Cultivate…Climate How to Implement…Methods

Outside Training for 4C Equipping

Transformational Meetings Transformational Assignments

Organizing for 4C Equipping

Length of Training Schedule, Scope, Sequence of Training

Equip Like Jesus Equipped

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

What transformational training strategies and methods do you want to implement in your equipping?

The Résumé of a Biblical Counselor

Want to Change Lives?