The following lessons are components of a more comprehensive lesson plan for teaching counseling within the church. This training program has been developed based on many years of experience serving as a pastor and is specifically designed to benefit the church and its leaders.
The first lesson plan, Track 1, covers the fundamentals of counseling training and is usually taught over a twelve-week period. Track 2 is the advanced course, utilizing case studies that correspond with the lessons in Track 1. Additionally, both tracks individually can be offered as a weekend event, running from Friday evening to Sunday, if that is your preference.
There are several ways to use this training program.
- Serving you as a church leader. If you are a church leader and would like to grow in your understanding of counseling in the local church, we can spend individual time together going through the lessons.
- If your church has a staff, we can meet with them and go through the workbook together.
- You may already have an active counseling ministry within your church and want to learn how to teach and use the workbook in your ministry.
- Plan a counseling training event for the church. This will not only strengthen the church as a community but also encourage members to serve one another. It will reinforce the message that the church is here to support them during life’s challenging circumstances.
- Consider organizing a Biblical Counseling event for church leaders eager to develop their skills as shepherds. Nothing has helped me grow more as a pastor, shepherd, and discipler of God’s people than Biblical Counseling. Biblical Counseling is comprehensive discipleship, it is intense discipleship that serves as an extension of both the pulpit and the teaching ministry of the church.
You can contact me at bradannah@hotmail.com
1a Counseling Structure Overview
1b Understanding Focus And Purpose In Life
1c Power point please God Chart Demonstrations
1d Please God Chart Demonstration
2 Counseling Questionnaire
2a Gathering Data
3b The Great Confession About The Church
3c Establishing counseling
4a Anthropology
5c Growing In Christlikeness Through Change
6a How to ask Questions
6b Probing Questions
6c Being Wise In Understanding
7a Key Elements in Homework
10a 50-Failure Factors
10b What to Do When Counseling Fails
10c Counseling Recovery
11a Understanding The Life Principles Of Stewardship
12a Marriage help