1. Equipping Counselors for Your Church Want to Change Lives?

2. Some Instructions Are Just Plain Wrong!

3. Some Instructions Are Just Plain Wrong

4. Some Directions Are Just Plain Wrong

5. Some Signs Are Spot On!

6. Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry Preparing for the Race  Imagine you were forwarding your résumé to the Divine Counselor. What items would you highlight to demonstrate your qualifications to be a biblical counselor?

7. Where We’re Headed in Lap Three  So what do we do with these folks???  What’s our goal? How do we get there?  What does an equipped BC look like?

8. Where We’re Headed in Lap Three  Develop comprehensive four-dimensional training goals and objectives…  Map out focused curriculum and materials...  Apply transformational training strategies and methods…

9. The Big Picture  Vince Lombardi…  “Gentlemen, this is a football!”  Me: My First Day…  A boy in his Dad’s over-sized suit.

10. 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.”

11. The Apostle Paul and the Ordinary, Average Christian in Rome  The Sufficiency of Christianity  And the Survey Says…

12. The “4Cs” of Biblical Counseling Equipping  Character: “Full of Goodness”  Content: “Complete in Knowledge”  Competence: “Competent to Instruct”  Community: “Brothers”/“One Another”

13. Christ-Like Character  What Paul Means: Relational Goodness  What It Looks Like

14. Biblical Content/Conviction  What Paul Means: Truth/Life and Scripture/Soul: Philippians 1:9; 1 Thess. 2:8; Eph. 4:15  What It Looks Like

15. Counseling Competence  What Paul Means:  Parakaletic  Nouthetic  What It Looks Like

16. Christian Community  What Paul Means:  Christ  Body of Christ  What It Looks Like

17. Comprehensive: 4Cs/4H

18. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application  If one of the 4Cs de-emphasized? Over-emphasized? Omitted?

19. Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials  Questions We Each Need to Ponder???  Your Answers

20. Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials  One Man’s Answers  Core Proficiencies  Two Dozen Best Practice Answers

21. Truth to Life/Truth in Love

22. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application  What content? Character? Competence? Community?

23. Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

24. Transformational Training Strategies and Methods  Transformational Student-Oriented Teaching Training  Transformational Small-Group Lab- Oriented Training

25. Outside Training for 4C Equipping  Transformational Meetings  Transformational Assignments

26. Organizing for 4C Equipping  Length of Training  Schedule, Scope, Sequence of Training

27. Equip Like Jesus Equipped

28. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application  What transformational training strategies and methods do you want to implement in your equipping?

29. Equipping Counselors for Your Church Want to Change Lives?