Be Equipped
Many people have been asking me about the Table of Contents (TOC) for Equipping Counselors for Your Church. So here it is. Plus, I’ve included a summary of the main equipping benefit of each chapter.
Foreword—By Pastor James MacDonald
Introduction—Want to Change Lives?
Section One: Envisioning God’s Ministry
Chapter 1—More Than Counseling: Catching God’s Vision for the Entire Church
• You will be equipped to be a catalyst for a congregation-saturated shift to the ministry mindset that changes everything—every member a disciple-maker.
Chapter 2—Examining Heart Health: Diagnosing Congregational and Community Fitness
• You will be equipped as a spiritual cardiologist to diagnose the heart health of your congregation and community to establish a present baseline for envisioning God’s future dream.
Chapter 3—Dreaming God’s Dream: Becoming an MVP-C Congregation
• You will be equipped to champion the biblical meaning of and necessity for jointly crafting congregation-wide and ministry-specific MVP-C Statements.
Chapter 4—Living God’s Calling: Jointly Crafting Your Biblical Counseling MVP-C Statement
• You will be equipped to guide your biblical counseling ministry team in jointly crafting a ministry-specific MVP-C Statement.
Section Two: Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry
Chapter 5—Shepherding the Transformation: Cultivating a Climate for Ongoing Ownership
• You will be equipped to shepherd a congregational transformation that unites your entire congregation around the right Person (Christ) and the right purposes (loving God and others).
Chapter 6—Mobilizing Ministers: Nurturing a Family and Building a Team
• You will be equipped to mobilize ministers so that you are able to match the right people to the right ministry for the right reasons at the right time in the right way—relationally.
Section Three: Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry
Chapter 7—Competent to Counsel: The Résumé of the Biblical Counselor
• You will be equipped to develop comprehensive four-dimensional training goals and objectives for equipping biblical counselors in the 4Cs of biblical content, Christ-like character, counseling competence, and Christian community.
Chapter 8—What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?: Part One—Theology and Methodology in Biblical Counseling
• You will be equipped to map out the focused curriculum and materials that will become your subject matter and lesson plans for equipping biblical counselors in content and competence.
Chapter 9—What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?: Part Two—Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Fellowship in Biblical Counseling
• You will be equipped to map out the focused curriculum and materials that will become your subject matter and lesson plans for equipping biblical counselors in character and community.
Chapter 10—Equipping Competent Biblical Counselors: Transformational Training Strategies and Methods
• You will be equipped to apply transformational training strategies and methods that comprehensively equip your trainees for knowing (head/content), being (heart/character), doing (hands/competence), and loving (home/community).
Section Four: Empowering/Employing Godly Ministers for Ministry
Chapter 11—Overseeing Ministries for God’s Glory: Organizing the Organism
• You will be equipped to oversee the ongoing organizing of the organism through God’s empowering for God’s glory by administrating ministries, mentoring/supervising ministers, and passing the baton of ministry.
Chapter 12—Practicing Ethical and Legal Wisdom in Ministry: Caring Carefully
• You will be equipped to care carefully by following sound principles of ethical behavior, legal norms, wise practices, and biblical standards.
Appendices—Practical Equipping Resources (Over 125 Pages!)
Bibliography—Sources Cited and Consulted
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