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 Ministry Preparing 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 the Ordinary, 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?