Quotes of Note: Caring Carefully
The following “Quotes of Note” are from Chapters Ten through Twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. These chapters focus on Caring Carefully by Organizing the Organism. For quotes from Chapter One, read God’s Grand Vision for His Church. For quotes from Chapter Two, read Knowing and Loving Those We Serve and Equip. For quotes from Chapters Three and Four read Christ’s Compelling Calling. For quotes from Chapter Five read My First Priority in Ministry. For quotes from Chapter Six read Mobilizing Ministers. For quotes from Chapter Seven read The Résumé of the Biblical Counselor. For quotes from Chapter Eight read What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?, Part 1. For Quotes from Chapter Nine Read What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?, Part 2.
• To train biblical counselors we must think like and teach like biblical counselors—always relating truth to life in the context of relationships.
• Biblical counseling training requires transformational teaching: Creative, interactive, engaging joint-exploration and two-way communication of truth (content) related to life (character) and ministry (competence) in the context of relationship (community).
• We must shift our focus from information to transformation. We are no longer asking, “What information do I need to dump and download into my student’s brain?” Instead, we are praying, “Father, how can our time together (home) transform our heads, hearts, and hands?”
• The authentic, intimate small group environment provides the fertile soil in which we nurture competent biblical counselors.
• God-sized dreams bring glory to God, not to us.
• Before God calls us to equip His people (Ephesians 4:11-16), He reminds us that He “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).
• The primary way to share your story is through word-of-mouth through counselees whose lives have been changed (perhaps we should call it word-of-life).
• We must obey the law of God and the law of the land in the fear of God and not the fear of man.
• When we oversee that our biblical counseling ministry fulfills God’s law of love, then fulfilling the law of the land, while still necessary, will be undemanding in comparison.
• My prayer is that this chapter, like this book, persuades people—like you—to launch and lead 4E training ministries. It can be done, others have, so can you. “Just do it!”
• Change lives with Christ’s changeless truth by equipping God’s people to speak the truth in love.
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