Equipped to Counsel
Note: The following post is featured at the Biblical Counseling Coalition’s Grace & Truth blog site. It is Part 2 of a unique six-part series where six pastors summarize six different ways of equipping biblical counselors in six different churches. 
You can also read Part One by Pastor Deepak Reju: How We Do Biblical Counseling Training in Our Community.
The Résumé of the Biblical Counselor: The 4Cs
In Equipping Counselors for Your Church, I ask readers to imagine that they are forwarding their résumé to the Holy Spirit, the Divine Counselor. If you did that, what qualifications would you highlight to demonstrate your eligibility to enter the ranks of biblical counselors? What do the Scriptures say? What qualifies a person for biblical counseling? What qualities make your trainees eligible to claim the mantle of soul physician and spiritual friend?
Fortunately, for those of us who train biblical counselors, the Apostle Paul already completed the résumé.
“I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another” (Romans 15:14).
In this verse, the surrounding context, and other biblical passages, we discover the four résumé qualifications of an equipped biblical counselor. They supply the biblical counseling equipping goals and objectives that I have sought to meet in all three churches where I have equipped God’s people.
Read the rest of this post at the Biblical Counseling Coalition: Equipping Counselors for Your Church.
