USING GOD’S WORD–TO HELP STRUGGLING FRIENDS (BC&D-01)

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF BIBLICAL COUNSELING (ROMANS 15:4-6, 13-14)?

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we, through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. 5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

“teaching” (didasko) is part of our Great Commission task to be “teaching” all true disciples of Christ (Mt. 28:20).

“patience” (hupomeno) means “stays in place, abides”; God is described as being faithful and unchangingly staying in place. This also represents the Word (I Pet. 1:23) and in I Cor. 13:13 ‘faith, hope, and love’. This is also the great word of Psalm 27:14; Isaiah 40:31.

“comfort” (paraklesis): means comfort that comes through God’s Word that is based upon the faithful God we can and do trust. God is the God of patience and comfort, and He alone, through His Word, can comfort the downcast (II Cor. 7:6).

13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. 14 Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

“The God of hope” is the source of hope we offer as Disciple-making/Counselors (v. 13a);
His Holy Spirit energizes this hope by “the power of the Holy Spirit” (v. 13b);
All Counseling/Disciple-makers need to be “full” of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22);
Only by the Spirit are we “able” (v. 14a). This word (dunamai) means power or ability; it is passive, so that means ‘made able by another’, or ‘enabled’;
All believers have been left with the job description (I Th. 5:14) to be Biblical Counselors “admonish one another” (noutheteo). This word means ‘impart understanding’, ‘set right’, or ‘lay upon the heart’. Paul said this is what his ministry was 24/7 (Acts 20:31). (BC&D-01)

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