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EP. 32 Made To Minister Conference: Book Review With Author of Journey: A Path To Biblical Change - A Unique Resource Written For Anyone Experiencing Trials or Suffering Nov 03, 2019

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Journey started as homework components that were created as counseling was happening.
Application questions
Theological concepts that continued to come up regardless of the format
Drawing out charts with those who were being counseled, turning that into charts that could be reproducible.
The counselor can actually use the book with those receiving biblical counseling - starting with the gospel and building on the gospel with theological tracks.
Establishing the fundamentals with the counselee’s; who is God, what do they think about God, do they know how scripture reveals God.
Each chapter has reflective questions that can be used with the counselee that interacts the material.
The resource was written to bring someone along; a lay leader can use this resource with someone in the faith, at work, or someone who is beginning biblical counseling.
The counselee’s use this book by reading the chapter as a homework assignment, talk about it, how it may have applied to the counselee’s life, and then answer the reflective questions, and then discuss them in the next session.
It helps the counselee notice when they lean back into a man-centered perspective instead of a God-centered perspective.

Episode Resources:
Journey: A Path To Biblical Change - Laura Chica
Made To Minister Website - Resources

Experience Bible Studies - Emily Dempster & Julie Bernard

EP. 31 Made To Minister - Salem Oregon: Ministering To A Culture With The Highest Rate of Depression, Anxiety, Suicide Attempts In The Country With The Least Amount Of Professional Help Oct 27, 2019

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Episode Notes:

– Made to minister Regional Conference W/Carl & Laura Chica from Salem Heights Church.

– The Unfortunate Reality of Oregon’s mental illness epidemic among children and adolesence; they have the highest rate of suiscide attempts, depression, and anxiety in the country and don’t have the help they need to meet the need with licensed professional counselors.

– Most folks are having to wait several weeks to receive help, so they’ve bee working

– Suicidality; 4 pepople above the national average

– 1,800/kids per national helath professional vs. Oregon’s average 10k/kids per national health professional

– One of our children has walked through mental illness, so it has prepared us for what God had brought to us as the church.

– Their church need began to be known among the community to where they were receiving a great response for real help that the state and state sponosored help wasn’t able to provide help to the extent they were able to provide.

– Over n’ Over again, they noticed the church and the church commiunity was able to provide a sense of purpose and help, namely Christ, that people were able to experience real hope and life change.

– Most of those who struggle with mental illness isolate themselves, but the biblical community of the church helps provide a loving accontablity.

– Made To Minister is “made” to come along someone who needs help, ministering. The state isn’t able to accomplish that in of iteself.

– One of the struggles is that, historically, the church has reduced mental illness/struggles is that it can be resolved with more reading of scripture, prayer, etc. So we’ve drawn attention to the physiological reality of the implications of mental illness.

– The millenial generation has been labeled the therapy generation; they’re open to emotional struggles. They’re saying that 51% of them have addmitted to losing a job because of emotional dispositions and supposed mental illnesses.

– Join us to help minister -

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EP. 30 From The Made To Minister Regional Conference: Biblical Counseling In A Secular Culture Oct 20, 2019

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Episode Notes:

– Salem Heights, Lead Pastor, Justin Greene,

– Carl Chica, Pastor of pastoral care & counseling

– Bringing biblical counseling in their local church context, origin, and development of biblical counseling in their church; the impact in the local church and in the community at large.

– The ministry started to happen naturally; given the need and just starting counseling as the need came.

– It began small but had a quick and immediate impact within the body, so they started equipping the lay leaders in their church.

– Being a light in a dark place like Oregon where the need is so great.

– Be Bold - Street Ministry going back into the streets that they were delivered from.

– Identifying leaders; observing those who were responding richly to the Word of God, who do people go to when they're having problems, etc.

– Having a person aside from you so we don’t isolate - having a person walking alongside the struggling.

– They hired a pastor to build the counseling ministry.

– What’s the need? Determining the need determines the process and decision of the counseling ministry.

– We’re working together, it's an “in tandem” approach.

– Pursue discipleship, be available to others; leaders don’t have to wait, serve now.

– Pastor’s don’t have to be territorial, they just need to be available.

– Paul needed a Barnabas, so find them, and cultivate them, and launch them out in your church.

Episode Resources:
Made To Minister Website & Resources
Salem Heights Church
Email Questions To: topics@speakthetruth.net

EP. 29 Launching A Biblical Counseling Ministry In A Established Church W/Pastor Andy Swart Oct 14, 2019

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Episode Notes
Moving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mount).
Creating an environment that allows people to struggle, starting from the platform.
Truth Renewed isn’t a replacement for the church regarding counseling, but an overflow of care.
Truth Renewed is a training center to help equip church leaders to become biblical counselors and launch biblical counseling in the local church.
Trident of ministry; robust theology, organization strategy, counsel and care.
In the same way, we raise up leaders to make Sunday happen, we need to raise up care leaders for the rest of the week - where ministry lives.
Don’t stop plowing, it takes time to bring life change and equipping the saints.
Trust the process of sanctification.
Find those in your congregation who are gifted in caring for others, they’re serious about God’s Word and the process of transformation, and scholarship them.
Find a line item in your budget to cultivate the saints in soul care.
The posture of a pastor should be a leader of learning.
Sunday morning is to edify the saints.
Email us on any topics; topics@speakthetruth.org
Reach out to Shauna if you’d like to start a biblical counseling ministry @ christiancounseling.com

Episode Resources:

The Mount Church
Metro Church
Rage Ministries
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hand's
Christiancounseling.com
Information about training your lay leaders as biblical counselors or becoming a training center, email Shauna, Shauna@christiancounseling.com

EP. 28 Bonus Episode: “Scriptural Encouragement” for our calling - God's Word, The Mean's For The Mission Oct 06, 2019

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Six Scriptural Truths that we need to focus on:

Gal. 1.10 - Trusting in the LORD. What we trust is where our fear comes from.
Faith is the willingness to look foolish.
Humility - it’s not about me, but the work that God is accomplishing through me.
James 3.13-18 - Wisdom from above, anything else is demonic.
Jn 20.21 - Peace in the Father’s Will.
Ezk. 2: 1-6: God’s will over man’s; we’ve been called into this co-prophets of God’s gospel - man won’t hear it all the time, but God has given us the “go-and-make” call, the gospel is prophetic!
Col. 3.15-17 - Thankfulness
Pro. 29.25 - Safty

EP. 27 Biblical Counseling & Church Planting: Establishing A Biblical Counseling Culture From The Beginning Sep 30, 2019

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Episode Notes:

As a podcast devoted to biblical truth for counseling & discipleship for the counselor and local church, we wanted to invite our friend, Ronnie Mills,
Pastor of Kingdom Chapel North Fort Worth
Baptist Missionary Association of Texas help Ronnie launch out in their church plant
Kingdom Chapel is located Alliance Christian Academy
Biblical counseling training has greatly improved his discipleship efforts and his preaching.
Biblical counseling has already begun to be rooted in the DNA of the church, so we can raise up leaders through discipleship and biblical counseling to strengthen the body, and keep it healthy.
Email Speak The Truth about getting a biblical counseling ministry started in your church; topics@speakthetruth.org
5 Resolves for soul care
God has called me
God has gone before me
Pastor now - shepherd now
Stay relative to “us”. .....
Raise leaders - we can’t do this on our own.
The hardest thing about church planting is putting yourself out there.
Fear of man becomes a huge struggle for putting yourself out there as leaders.

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EP. 26 Case Study: Angry Andy Part 2 - Scriptural References & Homework Sep 22, 2019

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Episode Notes:

◎ Scriptural examples: Jer. 17.5 - a powerful diagnostic

◎ living a cursed life when we anchor our lives in the flesh of our selves and others; living life in our own way.

◎ Ps. 1

◎ a thriving fruitful tree even in a time of drought.

◎ Where does he place the location of the problem?

◎ How much change would be established if he changed his routines?

◎ Does he understand his own anger?

◎ Proverbs, Psalms, etc. speak to the nature of anger; who’s is the object of his anger?

◎ Jer. 17.9-10; human nature demonstrates the nature of the heart, how is he examining his heart and the result of anger?

EP. 25: Angry Andy - Case Study: Why is Andy Angry - Data Gathering Sep 15, 2019

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Episode Notes:
◎ Andy reports being angry all the time
◎ Things we would address with Andy based on the summary of his behavior and his own perspective on life
◎ what does he think is going on
◎ what does he really get angry about
◎ Does Andy have a victim mindset?
◎ Was he motivated by his dad’s approval?
◎ What is uninteresting about God
◎ Does he consider himself as a Christian?
◎ More discussion around his understanding of God.
◎ How does he understand his own anger?
◎ What does Andy think his problem is?

EP. 24 SELF-CARE BONUS EPISODE: IS The Sabbath A Relevant Consideration Towards Our Self-Care? Sep 08, 2019

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Episode Notes:
Marks from Joseph Pipa's book - The LORD's Day
◎ Scriptures: Isa 58:13-14; The purpose of the Sabbath -

◎ pg. 13; 17 (Rev. 1.10)

Original Intent Gen. 2.1-3;

◎ The market day of the Soul Exod. 20.9-11;

◎ pg. 42; 44-45;

First Day Sabbath Heb. 4.9-10

Ex. 20:8-15: In the same way the 7th commandment speaks to the ordinance of marriage - the creational mandate - by not committing adultery, and the 8th structures the creation ordinance of work.

Episode Resources:
Joseph Pipa - The Lord's Day

James K. A. SMITH - HOW NOT TO BE SECULAR

James Taylor - Secular Age

EP. 23 Self-Care & Biblical Counseling: Establishing A Rhythm Of Rest In Ministry To Prevent Burnout Sep 02, 2019

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Episode Notes:

◎ Self-Care: how to avoid burnout.

◎ Going beyond our Sunday services and quite times to ensure we’re investing in our soul’s with God’s Word.

◎ Psalm 73.26, not Psalm. 76.13, there is no verse 13.

◎ 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps. 73.26)

◎ Establishing a rhythm of rest at least one day of the week.

◎ Physically, Spiritually, Intellectually, Emotionally

◎ Ps. 46.10

◎ A way to prevent taking things home is resting in the theological doctrine of God’s sovereignty - realizing God’s care and concern for those that we’re counseling.

◎ How do I work through the burden for them and their circumstances and be ok with how my circumstances are not nearly as difficult

◎ Taking those thoughts captive when we begin to feel guilty that our lives aren’t “as bad as others who suffer more”.

◎ Counseling will invariably stir up our own stuff.

◎ Who’s in our life to speak into our life when we get stirred?

◎ Physically, we need to be far more intentional with being active and creating a healthier diet.

◎ Planning is the most important part of self-care.

Episode Resources:

Call the sabbath a delight - Walter J. Chantry

The Lord’s Day - Joseph A. Pipa, JR.

Instruments In the redeemer’s hands - Paul Tripp