{"id":22402,"date":"2020-08-07T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22402"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:03:39","slug":"stick-to-six-to-start-shepherding-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22402","title":{"rendered":"Stick to Six to Start: Shepherding the Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started counseling, I remember a frustrated man who lived separately from his wife and had little hope that anything could be done to save his marriage. He made a shocking statement: &ldquo;No marriage from my church has ever been restored. The elders won&rsquo;t even try to help.&rdquo; He concluded that his only two options were misery or divorce. I wasn&rsquo;t sure what to think of his sad statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2020\/08\/07\/stick-to-six-to-start-shepherding-the-basics\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Biblical Counseling Center walk with a number of churches that desire to develop caring and counseling teams using a Titus 2 model. Churches that are able to do ministry beyond the pulpit are strategically more flexible to continue effective ministry in the current pandemic context. Though there is an increased interest and desire to prepare teams ready to reach their community effectively during times of crisis, the idea of creating such teams to be ready for any struggle, at any time, seems like an overwhelming responsibility to most pastors and church leaders. So, where do we start? When it comes to providing care and counseling, the church must develop shepherding skills in six critical areas. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":22404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[192,445,436,239,717,114,1147,955,2847,718,708],"class_list":["post-22402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-abuse","tag-addiction","tag-anger","tag-anxiety","tag-conflict","tag-depression","tag-equipping","tag-local-church-ministry","tag-marriage-problems","tag-pastoral-resources","tag-people-who-offer-care","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-5.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22405,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions\/22405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}