Equipping Counselors forYour Church

Want to Change Lives?

Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D.www.rpmministries.org

Some Instructions Are Just Plain Wrong!

Some Instructions Are Just Plain Wrong

Some Directions Are Just Plain Wrong

Some Signs Are Spot On!

Equipping Godly Ministers for MinistryPreparing 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?

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?

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…

The Big Picture

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

Running the Race: For Discussion and Application

As you think about equipping biblical counselors, what fears, doubts, and discouragement do you feel? How are you handling these feelings and thoughts?

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 Apostle Paul and theOrdinary, Average Christian in Rome

The Sufficiency of Christianity And the Survey Says…

Running the Race: For Discussion and Application

How confident are you that God’s people can be equipped? Basis? Increase? That God has equipped you to be a competent equipper? Further?

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

What Paul Means: Relational Goodness What It Looks Like

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

Counseling Competence

What Paul Means: Parakaletic Nouthetic

What It Looks Like

Christian Community

What Paul Means: Christ Body of Christ

What It Looks Like

Comprehensive: 4Cs/4H

Running the Race: For Discussion and Application

If one of the 4Cs de-emphasized? Over-emphasized? Omitted?Which 4C: Emphasize/Deemphasize? Trained? Best prepared to equip? Least prepared?

Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials

Questions We Each Need to Ponder??? Your Answers

Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials

One Man’s Answers Core Proficiencies Two Dozen Best Practice Answers

Running the Race: For Discussion and Application

In your 4C training, what content, competence, character, and community do you want your trainees to develop?

Biblical Content: Six Ultimate Life Questions

God’s Word: Where Do I Find Truth?

How do my trainees need to view and use God’s Word in order to speak Gospel truth in love? Sufficiency/Necessity of Scripture Purpose/Nature of Scripture Relevance/Richness of Scripture

The Trinity: Who Is God? Know Him?

How can I help my trainees to know the Soul Physician personally in order to be a soul physician? The Trinity: Our Relational Model God’s Holy Love Spiritual Warfare

Creation: Who Am I?

How do my trainees need to view people in order to know, love, and minister to them God’s way? Pursue God’s Target: Imago Dei Understanding People Comprehensively: RRVEP

Fall: What Went Wrong?

How do my trainees need to view suffering and sin in order to counsel people with compassion and discernment? Biblical Sufferology Diagnosing Sin Biblically: RRVE

Redemption: How Does God Change People?

What comprehensive understanding of salvation do my trainees need in order to counsel people toward prog. sanc.? Our Complete Salvation: JRRR Progressive Sanctification: Reflect Christ Role of Church

Consummation: How Does Our FutureDestiny Impact Our Present Reality?

How could reading the end of the story impact how my trainees live and counsel? The Big Picture: The End of the Story Eternity Motivates Us Today…

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

Of the 6 ultimate life questions, surprise? Have taught? Have not taught? Not include? Add?

Biblical Counseling Competence:Four Core Relational Competencies

Our GPS: Suffering and Sinning

“Pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with

the evils we have suffered and

with the sins we have committed.”

Our Soul Care GPS: Sustaining and Healing For Suffering

Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt”—Empathize (Romans 12:15) Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope”—Encourage (Genesis 50:20)

Our Spiritual Direction GPS: Reconciling and Guiding for Sinning

Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven”—Enlighten (Romans 5:20) Guiding: “It’s Supernatural to Mature”—Empower (Philippians 3:10)

Our GPS: Sustaining, Healing, Reconciling, and Guiding

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

Of the 4 counseling competencies, surprise? Equipped people for? Not equipped people for? Not include? Add?

Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

Before this chapter, what was your definition of spiritual maturity? Measure? Goal? Now…different? What is the ultimate goal of biblical counseling?

Christlike Character:Four Marks of Christlike Character

Christlike Character:Four Marks of Christlike Character

We want ourselves, our trainees, and their counselees all moving toward these Christ-like characteristics? Spiritual formation—formation into the likeness of Christ RRVE—is the goal of BC. Whether the issue has a “solution” this side of heaven, there is always a SOUL-u- tion—WWJ R-R-V-E?

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

Take a Redeemed Personality Inventory

Christian Community:Two Kinds of Christian Community

Christian Community:Two Kinds of Christian Community

Ephesians 3:17-19 Community Colossians 3:1-17 Community Hebrews 3:9-17 Community Hebrews 10:19-25 Community

Christian Community:Two Kinds of Christian Community

Individual and Corporate Spiritual Disc.

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

Of the two kinds of Christian community, which one surprises? Focused on? Not focused on? Include? Add?

Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

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

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

Of the 5 elements of transformational teaching, most important? Strength? Work on? (Book pages 259-264) Regarding transformational labs, surprised? Similar/dissimilar? Incorporate?

Outside Training for 4C Equipping

Transformational Meetings Transformational Assignments

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

How have the three-fold relationships impacted your life? How could you use each in your equipping?

Organizing for 4C Equipping

Length of Training Schedule, Scope, Sequence of Training

Running the Race:For Discussion and Application

How surprised are you at the typical duration? How would your congregation respond? Prepare them?In your church, what duration do you think is important?

Equip Like Jesus EquippedTo Be Like Jesus

Equipping Counselors forYour Church

Want to Change Lives?