Equipping Counselors for Your Church

1. Equipping Counselors for Your Church Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D. www.rpmministries.org 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. 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?

11. 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.”

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

13. 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?

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

15. Christ-Like Character • What Paul Means: Relational Goodness • What It Looks Like

16. 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

17. Counseling Competence • What Paul Means: • Parakaletic • Nouthetic • What It Looks Like

18. Christian Community • What Paul Means: • Christ • Body of Christ • What It Looks Like

19. Comprehensive: 4Cs/4H

20. 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?

21. Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials • Questions We Each Need to Ponder??? • Your Answers

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

23. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application • In your 4C training, what content, • competence, character, and community do • you want your trainees to develop?

24. Biblical Content: Six Ultimate Life Questions

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Consummation: How Does Our Future Destiny 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…

31. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application • Of the 6 ultimate life questions, surprise? • Have taught? Have not taught? Not • include? Add?

32. Biblical Counseling Competence: Four Core Relational Competencies

33. 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.”

34. 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)

35. 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)

36. Our GPS: Sustaining, Healing, Reconciling, and Guiding

37. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application • Of the 4 counseling competencies, • surprise? Equipped people for? Not • equipped people for? Not include? Add?

38. Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

39. 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?

40. Christlike Character: Four Marks of Christlike Character

41. 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?

42. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application • Take a Redeemed Personality Inventory

43. Christian Community: Two Kinds of Christian Community

44. 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

45. Christian Community: Two Kinds of Christian Community • Individual and Corporate Spiritual Disc.

46. Running the Race: For Discussion and Application • Of the two kinds of Christian community, • which one surprises? Focused on? Not • focused on? Include? Add?

47. Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

48. Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

49. Transformational Training Strategies and Methods • Transformational Student-Oriented • Teaching Training • Transformational Small-Group Lab- • Oriented Training

50. 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?