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Envisioning the Future of Biblical Counseling Dreaming a Dozen Dreams

Envisioning the Future of Biblical Counseling Dreaming a Dozen Dreams. Sharing/Growing as Spiritual Friends. When you hear the term “biblical counseling,” what comes to mind? Why? What is your “gut reaction,” your visceral response? How would you define “biblical

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Envisioning the Future of Biblical Counseling Dreaming a Dozen Dreams

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  1. Envisioning the Future of Biblical Counseling Dreaming a Dozen Dreams

  2. Sharing/Growing as Spiritual Friends • When you hear the term “biblical counseling,” what comes to mind? Why? What is your “gut reaction,” your visceral response? • How would you define “biblical counseling”?

  3. What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical? • “And the Survey Says . . .” • One Working Definition (Titus 2:10)

  4. Biblical counseling depends upon the Holy Spirit to relate God’s inspired truth about people, problems, and solutions to human suffering (through the Christian soul care arts of sustaining and healing) and sin (through the Christian spiritual direction arts of reconciling and guiding) to empower people to exalt and enjoy God and to love others (Matthew 22:35-40) by cultivating conformity to Christ and communion with Christ and the Body of Christ.

  5. Dream Number One: Biblical Counseling Will Be Scriptural • The Supremacy of Scripture: Colossians 2:2-3, 8-9 • The Sufficiency of Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3; 2 Timothy 3:16-17 • The Profundity of Scripture: Philippians 1:9-10; Hebrews 4:12-16

  6. Dream Number Two: Biblical Counseling Will Be Theological • The CFR Narrative • Creation: People • Fall: Problems • Redemption: Solutions

  7. Dream Number Two: Biblical Counseling Will Be Theological • Franz Delitzsch: “Biblical psychology is no science of yesterday. It is the oldest science of the church.” • Psychology is native to our faith.

  8. Dream Number Three: Biblical Counseling Will Be Historical • The Great Cloud of Witnesses: Hebrews 12:1-3

  9. Hebrews 12:1-3—Cloud of Witnesses “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”

  10. Dream Number Three: Biblical Counseling Will Be Historical • The Ancient Path: Jeremiah 6:16

  11. 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).

  12. Following the Ancient Paths • G. K. Chesterton: “History is the democracy of the dead giving vote and voice to those who have gone before us.”

  13. Dream Number Four: Biblical Counseling Will Be Positive • “Corinthian Counselor”:1 Corinthians 1:10-17 • “Berean Counselor”: Acts 17:11; 2 Timothy 2:15-16 • A Case Study: How would a Corinthian counselor and a Berean counselor evaluate a book on “anxiety”?

  14. Dream Number Five: Biblical Counseling Will Be Relational • Trinitarian Foundation: John 1, 17 • “Real and Raw Counseling”: 1 Thess. 2:8 • Trialogical Relationships: Collaborative Counseling

  15. Dream Number Six: Biblical Counseling Will Be Relevant • The Truth Will Set You Free: John 8:32 • “I Will Give You Rest”: Matthew 11:28 • Abundant Life: John 10:10

  16. Dream Number Seven: Biblical Counseling Will Be Transformative • Progressive Sanctification • Spiritual Formation • God’s Role and Our Responsibility • A Spiritual Theology of the Spiritual Life

  17. Dream Number Eight: Biblical Counseling Will Be Holistic in Theory • Relational: Spiritual, Social, Self-Aware—Desire • Rational: Think • Volitional: Choose • Emotional: Feel • Physical: Act • A Case Study: One missing? One overemphasized?

  18. Dream Number Nine: Biblical Counseling Will Be Holistic in Methodology • Sustaining: “Hurt” • Healing: “Hope” • Reconciling: “Horrible/Wonderful” • Guiding: “Mature” • A Case Study: One?

  19. Dream Number Ten Biblical Counseling Will Be Holistic in Equipping 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.”

  20. Dream Number Ten Biblical Counseling Will Be Holistic in Equipping • Character: “Full of Goodness” • Content: “Complete in Knowledge” • Competence: “Competent to Instruct” • Community: “Brothers”/“One Another” • A Case Study: One Missing? One Overemphasized?

  21. Dream Number Eleven Biblical Counseling Will Be Universal • A Comprehensive Worldview • Comprehensive World-Changers • Lay Spiritual Friends • Pastoral Soul Physicians • Professional Christian Counselors

  22. Dream Number Twelve Biblical Counseling Will Be Multi-Cultural • Diverse Christian Perspectives: Rev. 5:9 • Diverse Theory-Building/Competency- Building

  23. Conclusion: Daring to Dream “When you say ‘biblical counseling,’ do you mean lay, pastoral, and professional Christian counseling that is scriptural, theological, historical, positive, relational, relevant, transformative, holistic in theory, holistic in methodology, holistic in equipping, universal, and multi-cultural?”

  24. Some Resources for Biblical Counseling

  25. Envisioning the Future of Biblical Counseling Dreaming a Dozen Dreams

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