What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical

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What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?
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Ever Feel a Little Lost?
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Ever Feel a Little Lost?
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Ever Feel a Little Lost?
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Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others
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Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others
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Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
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Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
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Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
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Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
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Need Some Directions?
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Need Some Directions?
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Whet Your Appetite
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The Tale of Two Counselors

• The Tale of Two Counselors
• Which pastor/counselor/spiritual friend/soul
  physician do you tend to be more like? Why?
• Has anyone ever interacted with you like either
  of Jims counselors? What did it feel like? What
  were the results?
• What content does a person need to know to be a
  biblical counselor, pastoral counselor, spiritual
  friend, soul physician? What biblical theology
  might have motivated Jims counselors?

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The Great Soul Physician
The SPDR!
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The SPDR

• Nourishing the Hunger of the Soul
• Preventative MedicineGods Word
• Knowing the Creator of the Soul
• The Great PhysicianThe Trinity
• Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of
• the Soul
• PeopleCreation

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The SPDR

• Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul
• ProblemsFall
• Prescribing Gods Cure for the Soul
• SolutionsRedemption

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The SPDR

• Envisioning the Final Healing of the Soul
• HomeGlorification
• Dispensing Gods Care for the Soul
• Spiritual FriendsSanctification

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Nourishing the Hunger of the Soul Preventative
MedicineGods Word

• Our Passion Coram Deo Sola
• ScripturaColossians 28-10
• Our Principle Truth and Love Must
• KissPhilippians 19

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Nourishing the Hunger of the Soul Preventative
MedicineGods Word

• Our Pattern Relating Gods Truth
• to Human Relationships through
• Trialogues

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Knowing the Creator of the Soul The Great
PhysicianThe Trinity

• Start before the Beginning
• Who God Is
• The Soul Physician
• Reality Is Relational
• Who We Are
• For Knowing Images Bearers

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• The CFR Narrative
• Creation
• Fall
• Redemption

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• A Biblical Theology/Psychology
• of the Nature of Human Nature
• RRVEP (Relational, Rational,
• Volitional, Emotional, Physical)

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Relational Beings
• Romancers Intimacy
• Loving Passionately
• Affections
• Longing

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Spiritual Beings Communion

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Social Beings Community

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Self-Aware Beings Conscience

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Rational Beings
• Dreamers
• Thinking Wisely
• Mindsets
• Thinking

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Volitional Beings Will/Choice/Goals
• Creators
• Choosing Courageously
• Purposes/Pathways
• Choosing

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Emotional Beings
• Singers
• Experiencing Deeply
• Mood States
• Feeling

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Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of the Soul
PeopleCreation

• Physical Beings
• Actors
• Living Fully
• Habituated
• Tendencies
• Acting

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Diagnosing the Fallen Conditionof the Soul
ProblemsFall

• Not the way its supposed to be!

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Diagnosing the Fallen Conditionof the Soul
ProblemsFall

• Our descent into the abyss of sin.
• Our only explanation for sin and suffering.
• Our Fallen Personality Hamartiology
• Our Fallen Planet Sufferology

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Diagnosing the Fallen Conditionof the Soul
ProblemsFall

• Our World Is Fallen and It Often Falls on Us!

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Prescribing Gods Cure for the Soul
SolutionsRedemption

• Creation Biblical Psychology
• Fall Biblical Psychopathology
• Redemption Biblical Psychotherapy
• Our Passion Coram Deo Sola Gratia

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Prescribing Gods Cure for the Soul
SolutionsRedemption

• The Bible Is Comedy Not Tragedy
• Regeneration Who We Are In Christ Nature
• Reconciliation Who We Are To Christ Nurture

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Envisioning the Final Healing of the Soul
HomeGlorification

• Gods Promise Heaven
• What is our destiny?
• Impact our present reality?
• Weve read the end of the
• story!

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Dispensing Gods Care for the Soul Spiritual
FriendsSanctification

• Sustaining Its Normal
• to Hurt

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Dispensing Gods Care for the Soul Spiritual
FriendsSanctification

• Healing Its Possible to
• Hope

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Dispensing Gods Care for the Soul Spiritual
FriendsSanctification

• Reconciling Its Horrible
• to Sin, But Wonderful to Be
• Forgiven

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Dispensing Gods Care for the Soul Spiritual
FriendsSanctification

• Guiding Its Supernatural
• to Mature

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Personal Applications

• Of nourishing, knowing, examining, diagnosing,
  prescribing, envisioning, and dispensing
• Which seems most important for you to learn?
• What if you omitted any one?
• Which could you apply to your life now? How?
• How might your daily life change if you lived
  coram Deo sola scriptura?
• How might your daily life be different if you
  lived coram Deo sola gratia?

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Ministry Implications

• What is your approach to helping people, your
  map/model? Where did you learn it? Where could
  Scripture further shape it?
• As you leave here today on track toward growth as
  a soul physician, what will you be doing
  differently as you further develop as a biblical
  counselor?
• Rate your level of what to know for biblical
  counseling compared to ninety minutes ago, with 1
  being the same as when I entered, and 10 being
  incredibly higher.