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Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D.www.rpmministries.org
The Résumé of a Spiritual Friend:Equipped to Offer
Wise Counsel in Complex Times
Being a Spiritual FriendCan Feel Like a Maze!
Need Some Directions?
Need Some Directions?
Some Signs Are Spot On!
Some Signs Are Confusing!
Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others
Some Signs Are More Helpful Than Others
We Need a GPS
The Résumé of a Spiritual Friend
Sharing As Spiritual Friends Imagine that you’re forwarding your résumé to the Divine Counselor. What items would you highlight to demonstrate your qualifications to be a SF/LBC? What qualities seem to be missing in the lives and ministries of SF/LBC? What could be done to remedy these missing qualities?
The Apostle Paul and theOrdinary, Average Christian in Rome
Romans 15:14 “I myself am convinced,
my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness,
complete in knowledge,and competent to instruct
one another.”
The Apostle Paul and theOrdinary, Average Christian in Rome
“Brothers” “I Myself/You Yourselves” “Convinced”
The Apostle Paul and theOrdinary, Average Christian in Rome
Character: “Full of Goodness” Content: “Complete in Knowledge” Competence: “Competent to Instruct” Community: “Brothers”/“One Another”
Character: Loving Like JesusReflecting Christ: “Full of Goodness”
Goodness: Galatians 5:22-23 God’s Kindness to Those in Need: Suffering God’s Grace Even to the Unjust: Sinning Grace Relationships
Character: Loving Like JesusReflecting Christ: “Full of Goodness”
Christlikeness The powerful spiritual friend reflects the Ultimate Spiritual Friend—Jesus.
“Full”: Overflowing “The person who is good at relating to
God will be good at relating to others!” Competence without character is like one corpse practicing cosmetic surgery on another corpse.
Content/Conviction: Thinking Like Jesus Renewed in Christ: “Complete in Knowledge”
Love God with our Brain Complete:
Claims our entire being We are captured by God’s Truth!
Knowledge: Gnoseos Information + Application = Transformation Insight for relating God’s truth to human relationships
Content/Conviction: Thinking Like Jesus Renewed in Christ: “Complete in Knowledge”
Philippians 1:9-11
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth
of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of
righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.”
Content/Conviction: Thinking Like Jesus Renewed in Christ: “Complete in Knowledge”
Philippians 1:9-11—Truth and Love Kiss Biblibcal counselors are convinced that God’s Word is sufficient for wisdom about people, problems, and solutions. Changing Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth
Truth and Love/Character and Content
Competence: Serving Like Jesus Reproducing Christ: “Competent to Instruct”
Competent: Dunamenoi Power to Accomplish a Mission Ability: Capability, Resources, Strength
Competence: Serving Like Jesus Reproducing Christ: “Competent to Instruct”
“Instruction” by Spiritual Direction: Noutheteo
To Care-Front Out of Concern for Change Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven” Guiding: “It’s Supernatural to Mature”
Competence: Serving Like Jesus Reproducing Christ: “Competent to Disciple”
“Instruction” by Soul Care: Parakaleo 2 Corinthians 1
To Come Along Side to Comfort and Encourage Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt” Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope”
Community: Connecting in JesusRelating in Christ: “Brothers”/“One Another”
Connecting Communities One Another Context:
Romans 12 Romans 13 Romans 14-15 Romans 16
Community: Connecting in JesusRelating in Christ: “Brothers”/“One Another”
Spiritual Friendship Communities Spiritual Friends Must Have Spiritual Friends
Conclusion: Don’t Take a Back Seat to Anyone!
Be Equipped to Be a Christ-
Confident“4C” Spiritual
Friend
Be a Church Of Biblical Counseling Not Just a
Church With Biblical
Counseling
Sharing and Growing As Spiritual Friends
1.Which of the “4Cs” will you further develop? How?
2.Personal Dream: What would demonstrate you had caught God’s vision for you as a SF?
3.Church Dream: What would demonstrate your church had caught God’s vision for it as a SF community?
4.What will you be doing differently as a SF?
Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D.www.rpmministries.org
The Résumé of a Spiritual Friend:Equipped to Offer
Wise Counsel in Complex Times
