Following the Ancient Paths: Mapping the Intersection of Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

1. Following the Ancient Paths: Mapping the Intersection of Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

2. Ever Feel a Little Lost?

3. Ever Feel a Little Lost?

4. Ever Feel a Little Lost?

5. Ever Feel a Little Lost?

6. Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others

7. Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others

8. Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others

9. Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others

10. Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others

11. Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others

12. Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others

13. Need Some Directions?

14. Need Some Directions?

15. Sharing/Growing as Spiritual Friends • How might the typical secular psychologist respond? • How might the typical Christian counselor/psychologist respond? • How might the typical pastor respond? • How might the typical spiritual director respond? • How might the typical lay spiritual friend respond?

16. Mapping Our Spiritual Journey • How might Jesus respond? • How might “Church History” respond? • How might We respond?

17. Following the Ancient Paths “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls” (Jeremiah 6:16a).

18. Searching for Buried Treasure: The Forgotten Arts

19. Searching for Buried Treasure: The Forgotten Arts • Pedersen: “Lack sufficient awareness” • Oden: “Without the historic voices” • Oates: “Start over from scratch” • Peterson: “Abandoned historic call” • Hiltner: “Lack identification with roots” • Butman: “Exists in a historical vacuum” • Clebsch/Jaekle: “Too readily adopted”

20. Finding Buried Treasure: Changeless Truth for Changing Times • Chesterton: “Democracy of the dead” • Lane: “Balance changing/changeless” • Edwards: “Reclaim spiritual friendship” • Oates: “Enter into durable fellowship”

21. Investing Buried Treasure: Soul Care and Spiritual Direction • Clebsch/Jaekle: “Grand tradition” • McNeil: “Soul Care/Spiritual Direction” • Didascalia Apostolorum: “SHRG” • Oden: “Historical consensus” • Lake: “Suffer/Sin, Deprivation/Depravity” • Clebsch/Jaekle: “Classic spiritual care” • Leech: “Standard definition”

22. Following the Ancient Paths: Mapping the Intersection of Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

23. Our Treasure Map: Sustaining, Healing, Reconciling, and Guiding • Sustaining: “Hurt” • Healing: “Hope” • Reconciling: “Horrible/Wonderful” • Guiding: “Mature”

24. Our Treasure Map: Sustaining, Healing, Reconciling, and Guiding

25. Soul Care: Sustaining • Sufferology: “Evils We Have Suffered” • Sustaining—“It’s Normal to Hurt” • 2 Corinthians 1:3-9—Sense the Soul’s Earthly Story

26. Soul Care: Sustaining • Empathy: CompassionateCommiseration • Shared Sorrow Is Endurable Sorrow

27. Soul Care: Sustaining • Dual Listening: Listen to God’s Story While You Listen to Your Friend’s Story. • We Have to Climb in the Casket with Them.

28. Soul Care: Healing • Healing—“It’s Possible to Hope” • 2 Corinthians 1:9-11: God’s Eternal Story • Stretching the Soul to Great Things. • When Life Stinks, Our Perspective Shrinks.

30. Soul Care: Healing • Help Your Spiritual Friend Look at Life with Spiritual Eyes • Matthew 6:22-23 • 2 Kings 6:15-17 • Trialogue • “Celebrate the Empty Tomb!”

32. Sharing and Growing As Soul Care Givers • Share: Sustaining? • Share: Healing?

33. Sharing and Growing As Soul Care Givers How might each of the following offer sustaining and healing to Carl? • Secular Psychologist? • Christian Counselor? • Pastor? • Spiritual Director? • Lay Spiritual Friend?

34. Sharing and Growing As Soul Care Givers • How might Jesus sustain and heal Carl? • How might you sustain and heal Carl? • What Ideas? Illustrations? Suggestions? • What questions do you have?

35. Spiritual Direction: Reconciling • Sancticology:“The Sins We Have Committed.” • Reconciling—“It’s Horrible to Sin.” • Puritans: Load the Conscience with Guilt.

36. Spiritual Direction: Reconciling • Recognize the “Quadralog”: Matthew 4 • Catch Them Red-handed: Hebrews 3, 10 • Leave the Conviction to God: 2 Timothy 2:24-26

37. Spiritual Direction: Reconciling • “It’s Wonderful to Be Forgiven.” • Puritans: Lighten the Conscience with Grace. • Dispensers of Grace. • Provide Tastes of Grace. • Pen Psalms of HomeComing: Psalm 32, 51

38. Les Miserables

39. Spiritual Direction: Guiding • Guiding—“It’s Supernatural to Mature” • Envisioning Who They Are: Eph. 1-3; 2 Tim. 1:5-7 • New Nurture: Reconciliation—Sons! • New Nature: Regeneration—Saints!

40. Spiritual Direction: Guiding • Universal Identity • Unique Identity

41. Spiritual Direction: Guiding • Empowering Them to Be All They Can Be: Ephesians 4:17-24; 2 Timothy 1:8-18 • Putting Off—Mortify • Putting On—Vivify

42. Spiritual Direction: Guiding • Equipping Them to Do All They Can Do: Ephesians 4:11-16; 2 Timothy 2:1-10 • Stir Up the Gift of God

43. Sharing and Growing As Spiritual Directors • Share: Reconciling? • Share: Guiding?

44. Sharing and Growing As Spiritual Directors How might each of the following offer reconciling and guiding to Carl? • Secular Psychologist? • Christian Counselor? • Pastor? • Spiritual Director? • Lay Spiritual Friend?

45. Sharing and Growing As Spiritual Directors • How might Jesus reconcile and guide Carl? • How might you reconcile and guide Carl? • What Ideas? Illustrations? Suggestions? • What questions do you have?

46. Our Treasure Map: Sustaining, Healing, Reconciling, and Guiding

47. Follow the Ancient Paths: Sustain, Heal, Reconcile, Guide