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Building a Culture of Care in Your Church: Where? When? and How?

Building a Culture of Care in Your Church: Where? When? and How?

by | Nov 20, 2024 | | 0 |

Where does the vast majority of care happen in a local church? It happens in the weekly rhythms of natural relationships: small groups, ministry teams, conversations between parents whose children are the same age, and relationships that emerge from various men’s or women’s discipleship contexts. Most of the care provided in a church does not happen in conversations that resemble counseling: set appointment times, intake forms, meetings in an office, or well-defined helper and helpee roles. Continue Reading →

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Our Call to Care Like Jesus

Our Call to Care Like Jesus

by | Nov 18, 2024 | | 0 |

Our November 2024 mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses creating a biblical counseling culture in the church. In this first article, Shauna Van Dyke encourages modeling a church’s culture of care on Jesus in His earthly ministry. In other contributions to the series, Dave Deuel explains how a culture of care is built from biblical fellowship characterized by God’s people practicing the one-anothers, Brad Hambrick offers wisdom on creating a culture of care through biblical friendships and small groups, Tim St. John shares how preaching is influential in the church growing together and caring for one another, and Jeremy Oliver describes how church leaders create culture in their daily conduct amongst those they serve. Continue Reading →

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The Great Commission and Your Counseling Ministry

The Great Commission and Your Counseling Ministry

by | Nov 15, 2024 | | 0 |

Counselors have a beautiful opportunity to engage Jesus’ call to make disciples of all the nations right from our counseling offices! As we sit with hurting people, we are charged to listen, comfort, correct, and encourage people so that they can grow into wholeness, repentance, and spiritual maturity, but also to fully engage the “…good works prepared in advance” (see Eph. 2:10) for them, which can ripple out to impact others…and the world. Continue Reading →

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Is It I, Lord?

Is It I, Lord?

by | Nov 13, 2024 | | 0 |

Awkward conversations have adorned the dinner table ever since Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. That being said, I am hard-pressed to think of a more awkward moment at a meal than this. Earlier that day Jesus had told the disciples to go into the city and talk to a specific stranger to acquire a room for their Passover meal. As usual, what Jesus asked them to do proved perfectly successful. Rejoicing in this unique provision, the disciples settled in and began enjoying their meal together, likely discussing, once again, the wonders of what Jesus had done. And then, with a few words, Jesus changed everything: “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” Continue Reading →

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Grace in the Face of Failure: Responding When Those We Respect Disappoint Us

Grace in the Face of Failure: Responding When Those We Respect Disappoint Us

by | Nov 8, 2024 | | 0 |

When respected leaders disappoint us, pastors and counselors must navigate their responses carefully. The article outlines five fundamental principles: remember your need for grace, seek understanding rather than condemnation, balance truth with grace, pursue wise restoration, and rest in God’s sovereignty. The goal is redemption rather than judgment or bitterness. Continue Reading →

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Emotions and Our Past, Present, and Future

Emotions and Our Past, Present, and Future

by | Nov 6, 2024 | | 0 |

Emotions are part of God’s good design. Sometimes this is hard to convince ourselves of when our emotions are so visceral that we can’t see past them.  When we are hyperventilating because of anxiety and panic or when we are overwhelmed with grief over the loss of a loved one, it can be difficult to recognize the gift of those emotional responses because they feel so undesirable to us. However, I am convinced that Scripture speaks to our experience of emotions by showing them to be active responses of love that are made in the present, passive reflections of the past, but also that they should be flavored with present help and future hope from God. Continue Reading →

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The Third Wave of Biblical Counseling: A Call to the Priesthood of Believers and Preventative Care

The Third Wave of Biblical Counseling: A Call to the Priesthood of Believers and Preventative Care

by | Nov 1, 2024 | | 0 |

As someone who has spent over 20 years in biblical counseling, I’ve seen firsthand the power of God’s Word to transform hearts and lives. What began as a movement focused on bringing the Word back into the pastoral counseling office is now evolving into something much more expansive—a holistic approach that seeks to equip every believer for the work of ministry, with a preventative, heart-focused approach at its core.

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Connect Men with Social Support

Connect Men with Social Support

by | Oct 25, 2024 | | 0 |

We know we need friends, and God even ordained friendship as part of His good gifts to creation. But developing friendships is difficult. Men, in particular, have great difficulty developing friendships, but that is what they most desperately need when facing trials in life. As we seek to counsel men, we need to connect them with social support. Continue Reading →

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