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Counseling in the Local Church

Course Description

Biblical counseling – is it just for the pastors and elders? Or for trained professionals? What does it look like to restore counseling to the local church? The purpose of this course is to:

  • to broaden students’ understanding of counseling to include all relationships
  • to build a thoroughly biblical understanding of the local church as a ministering community where everyone plays a part
  • to help students find their place of ministry within the context of the local church and to help others do the same
  • to see the importance of both public and private ministry of the Word and how they interrelate
  • to examine present ministry opportunities

Topics covered include a biblical foundation for private ministry of the Word; the role of community and relationships in the process of sanctification; developing a practical ecclesiology; and developing an eye for ministry opportunities such as conflict resolution, evangelism, and church discipline.

Meet the Professors

Michael Gembola
Tim Lane

Details

Counseling in the Local Church is a 2-credit course. The credit cost of the course is $450.00. Taken for non-credit it is $225.00. Counseling in the Local Church is offered every other semester. Click here to see a complete course schedule. This class is part of the Foundations of Biblical Counseling certificate. You can learn more about our certificates and requisite courses by clicking here.

Course Outline

  • Week 1: Class Introduction: Why the Church Should be Counseling
  • Week 2: Redemptive Community
  • Week 3: Self-counseling
  • Week 4: A Biblical View of Change
  • Week 5: Public Counsel
  • Week 6: Sought and Created Counsel
  • Week 7: Joanne and Structures and Processes for Interpersonal Ministry
  • Week 8: Counseling Models at Four Churches
  • Week 9: Conflict and Practicing Forgiveness
  • Week 10: Jack and Unsought Group Counsel
  • Week 11: Church Discipline

Required Textbooks

Students must purchase separately, any other required reading is provided with course access.

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