Category Archives: Equipping
My good friend, David Murray, in a post entitled Maximizing and Minimizing Mental Illness, correctly indicated that a person’s view of mental illness could be wrongly explored from the perspective of sin maximizing or body minimizing. David further urged biblical counselors to clearly communicate their perspective. I write this post in response to David’s wise counsel. What perspective shapes a biblical counseling view…of life, of counseling, of people, of mental illness? Continue reading
Whether you are a church member or ministry leader you might find yourself filled with a sense of compassion when face with parishioners struggling with mental illness, but it is eclipsed by feelings of fear, ignorance, and incompetence. In your head you affirm the gospel is enough for those living with mental illness but in your heart you find yourself tentative, unsure of how the gospel can tangibly make a difference not just for eternity, but here and now. Continue reading
Discover how God is growing biblical counselling in Canada. Continue reading
There is a growing momentum in Australia for biblical, Christ-centred pastoral counselling, although we are moving off a relatively small base. Continue reading
The ministry of Overseas Instruction in Counseling (OIC) in the Middle East illustrates the concept that culture is local. All biblical counseling trainers must be alert to the ways culture influences both counseling and counseling training. Continue reading
Equipping believers and being equipped is an important aspect of biblical counseling. Primarily from the Ephesians 4, there are several corresponding ways equipping and being equipped correspond and show us the necessity of equipping ministries in the local church. Continue reading
As a pastor or ministry leader, you may clearly recognize the need for church-wide discipleship, but convincing your people is another story. They may not intend to be stubborn; they just pursue their own ideas. And they resist change that doesn’t fulfill their vision of what their church should do. Here are two suggestions for building discipleship in such a church. Continue reading
Many times when people write about equipping, they provide excellent ideas. But often I hear people say: “I love those ideas, but do you have any resources so I don’t have to reinvent the wheel? And, any chance those resources are free!?” In response to questions like that from many educators, equippers, pastors, and biblical counselors, I’ve created the following free resources for Equipping Counselors for Your Church. Continue reading
Several years into this cascade, I was studying through Ephesians and the passage from chapter 4 hit me like a freight train. In the face of this incredibly clear passage I had to admit that I was laboring in the opposite direction to God’s design and purpose. I was dominating the work of service, intentionally or not, and the saints were left on the outside. The body of Christ was not being built up because the very means God had given for the construction had been short-circuited. Beyond the practical problems I cited earlier, I had to come to terms with the fact that I was neglecting a huge and vital task God had clearly assigned. Continue reading
If the church in the western world is really going to move away from the over-professionalized, hyper-therapeutic view of counseling, we need to see counseling more as part of the discipleship continuum rather than placing it on a separate plane altogether. Because the war against our enemies (the flesh, Satan, and the world) is mostly fought at the street level, biblical counseling belongs in our homes, in our small group meetings, and in our friendships. Continue reading
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