{"id":76326,"date":"2024-05-10T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=76326"},"modified":"2024-05-10T03:08:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:08:40","slug":"an-extraordinary-call-to-every-believer-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=76326","title":{"rendered":"An Extraordinary Call to Every Believer, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2024\/05\/10\/an-extraordinary-call-to-every-believer-part-two\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While more and more leaders see soul care as an every-believer ministry (Rom. 15:14; Heb. 3:12-14), that does not mean they have a plan to equip, support, and supervise their people. It is the mission of most churches, and it\u2019s not for lack of vision that it is falling short in many. It\u2019s the \u201ctrellis work\u201d\u2014the care structure is missing. Making disciples is not the same as maturing disciples. Maturing disciples means a well-thought-out discipleship philosophy and lay leaders that are well-trained, supported, and supervised. Soul care-oriented discipleship at every level targets a deeper dependency on God and His Word, compassionate caregivers who gently restore believers caught in habitual sin (Gal. 6:1-2), and co-sufferers who help those in enduring trials (2 Cor. 1:3-5). Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":76328,"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":[145,3446,884,328,708,2185],"class_list":["post-76326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-calling","tag-counseling-training","tag-discipleship","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-people-who-train-caregivers","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\/2024\/05\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-6.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76329,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326\/revisions\/76329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}