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What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?: What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?
Slide2: Ever Feel a Little Lost?
Slide3: Ever Feel a Little Lost?
Slide4: Ever Feel a Little Lost?
Slide5: Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others
Slide6: Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others
Slide7: Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
Slide8: Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
Slide9: Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
Slide10: Some Sign Are More Helpful Than Others
Slide11: Need Some Directions?
Slide12: Need Some Directions?
Slide13: Whet Your Appetite
The Tale of Two Counselors: 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 Jim’s 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 Jim’s counselors?
The Great Soul Physician: The Great Soul Physician The SPDR!
The SPDR: The SPDR Nourishing the Hunger of the Soul:
Preventative Medicine—God’s Word
Knowing the Creator of the Soul
The Great Physician—The Trinity
Examining the Spiritual Anatomy of
the Soul:
People—Creation
The SPDR: The SPDR Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul:
Problems—Fall
Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul:
Solutions—Redemption
The SPDR: The SPDR Envisioning the Final Healing of the Soul:
Home—Glorification
Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul:
Spiritual Friends—Sanctification
Slide21: Nourishing the Hunger of the Soul:
Preventative Medicine—God’s Word Our Passion: Coram Deo Sola
Scriptura—Colossians 2:8-10
Our Principle: Truth and Love Must
Kiss—Philippians 1:9
Slide22: Nourishing the Hunger of the Soul:
Preventative Medicine—God’s Word Our Pattern: Relating God’s Truth
to Human Relationships through
Trialogues
Slide24: Knowing the Creator of the Soul:
The Great Physician—The Trinity Start before the Beginning
Who God Is
The Soul Physician
Reality Is Relational
Who We Are
For Knowing Images Bearers
Slide25: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation The CFR Narrative
Creation
Fall
Redemption
Slide26: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation A Biblical Theology/Psychology
of the Nature of Human Nature
RRVEP (Relational, Rational,
Volitional, Emotional, Physical)
Slide27: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Relational Beings:
Romancers: Intimacy
Loving Passionately
Affections
Longing
Slide28: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Spiritual Beings: Communion
Slide29: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Social Beings: Community
Slide30: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Self-Aware Beings: Conscience
Slide31: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Rational Beings:
Dreamers
Thinking Wisely
Mindsets
Thinking
Slide32: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Volitional Beings: Will/Choice/Goals
Creators
Choosing Courageously
Purposes/Pathways
Choosing
Slide33: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Emotional Beings:
Singers
Experiencing Deeply
Mood States
Feeling
Slide34: Examining the Spiritual Anatomy
of the Soul: People—Creation Physical Beings:
Actors
Living Fully
Habituated
Tendencies
Acting
Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Problems—Fall: Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Problems—Fall “Not the way it’s supposed to be!”
Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Problems—Fall: Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Problems—Fall Our descent into the abyss of sin.
Our only explanation for sin and suffering.
Our Fallen Personality: Hamartiology
Our Fallen Planet: Sufferology
Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Problems—Fall: Diagnosing the Fallen Condition of the Soul: Problems—Fall “Our World Is Fallen and It Often Falls on Us!”
Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul: Solutions—Redemption: Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul: Solutions—Redemption Creation: Biblical Psychology
Fall: Biblical Psychopathology
Redemption: Biblical Psychotherapy
Our Passion: Coram Deo Sola Gratia
Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul: Solutions—Redemption: Prescribing God’s Cure for the Soul: Solutions—Redemption The Bible Is Comedy Not Tragedy
Regeneration: Who We Are In Christ: Nature
Reconciliation: Who We Are To Christ: Nurture
Envisioning the Final Healing of the Soul: Home—Glorification: Envisioning the Final Healing of the Soul: Home—Glorification God’s Promise: Heaven
What is our destiny?
Impact our present reality?
We’ve read the end of the
story!
Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification : Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification Sustaining: “It’s Normal
to Hurt
Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification : Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification Healing: “It’s Possible to
Hope”
Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification : Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification Reconciling: “It’s Horrible
to Sin, But Wonderful to Be
Forgiven”
Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification : Dispensing God’s Care for the Soul: Spiritual Friends—Sanctification Guiding: “It’s Supernatural
to Mature”
Personal Applications: 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?
Ministry Implications: 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”.