Equipping Counselors for

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Equipping Counselors for Your Church
Want to Change Lives?
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Some Instructions Are Just Plain Wrong!
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Some Instructions Are Just Plain Wrong
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Some Directions Are Just Plain Wrong
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Some Signs Are Spot On!
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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?

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Where Were Headed in Lap Three

• So what do we do with these folks???
• Whats our goal? How do we get there?
• What does an equipped BC look like?

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Where Were Headed in Lap Three

• Develop comprehensive four-dimensional training
  goals and objectives
• Map out focused curriculum and materials...
• Apply transformational training strategies and
  methods

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The Big Picture

• Vince Lombardi
• Gentlemen, this is a football!
• Me My First Day
• A boy in his Dads over-sized suit.

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The Apostle Paul and the Ordinary, Average
Christian in Rome
Romans 1514 I myself am convinced, my
brothers, that you yourselves are full of
goodness, complete in knowledge, and competent to
instruct one another.
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The Apostle Paul and the Ordinary, Average
Christian in Rome

• The Sufficiency of Christianity
• And the Survey Says

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The 4Cs of Biblical Counseling Equipping

• Character Full of Goodness
• Content Complete in Knowledge
• Competence Competent to Instruct
• Community Brothers/One Another

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Christ-Like Character

• What Paul Means Relational Goodness
• What It Looks Like

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Biblical Content/Conviction

• What Paul Means Truth/Life and
• Scripture/Soul Philippians 19
• 1 Thess. 28 Eph. 415
• What It Looks Like

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Counseling Competence

• What Paul Means
• Parakaletic
• Nouthetic
• What It Looks Like

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Christian Community

• What Paul Means
• Christ
• Body of Christ
• What It Looks Like

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Comprehensive 4Cs/4H
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Running the Race For Discussion and Application

• If one of the 4Cs de-emphasized?
• Over-emphasized? Omitted?

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Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials

• Questions We Each Need to Ponder???
• Your Answers

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Mapping Our Curriculum and Materials

• One Mans Answers
• Core Proficiencies
• Two Dozen Best Practice Answers

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Truth to Life/Truth in Love
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Running the Race For Discussion and Application

• What content? Character? Competence?
• Community?

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Transformational Training Strategies and Methods
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Transformational Training Strategies and Methods

• Transformational Student-Oriented
• Teaching Training
• Transformational Small-Group Lab-
• Oriented Training

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Outside Training for 4C Equipping

• Transformational Meetings
• Transformational Assignments

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Organizing for 4C Equipping

• Length of Training
• Schedule, Scope, Sequence of Training

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Equip Like Jesus Equipped
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Running the Race For Discussion and Application

• What transformational training strategies
• and methods do you want to implement
• in your equipping?

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Equipping Counselors for Your Church
Want to Change Lives?