One of the major blessings of biblical counseling is that it naturally brings a missional mindset. I love that. Strong churches are not content to allow those around them to hurt without seeking to compassionately care.
I was training at one of our Launch partners in Long Island, NY and was thrilled to hear about their new plans to engage their community. They are planning to come alongside the local sheriff to help those come out of prison transition and talk with county leadership about how to help families in the new county medical center across the street that largely serves at-risk populations.
On the Sunday that I visited, they held a church picnic after church where I sat down at a table with a fourth grader and an eighth-grader from a Hispanic heritage. Soon, four more young Caribbean girls sat down along with a female young adult children’s volunteer. Twice a week the volunteer picks them up from the local transitional housing shelter and brings them to church and is sharing the gospel and her life with them.
As I rode to the airport, I sat with a 50-something carpenter who was in tears about how God had brought two young men
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