The Law and Church Counseling: Part Six—Counting the Cost

Posted on 3/19/2012 by Bob Kellemen

Note: You’re reading Part Six (the final post) in a blog mini-series on The Law and Church Counseling. Read Part One Caring Carefully (embed link), Part Two The Legal History and Climate (embed link), Part Three Scope of Care (embed link), Part Four Quality of Care (embed link), and Part Five Building Safeguards Into Your Ministry (embed link). I’m summarizing these posts from material in chapter twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. To learn more about the book, visit Equipping Counselors (embed link http://bit.ly/EC4YC4E).

Seven pertinent issues summarize the quality of care matters that every biblical counseling

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The Law and Church Counseling: Part Five—Building Safeguards Into Your Ministry

Posted on 3/2/2012 by Bob Kellemen

Note: You’re reading Part Five in a blog mini-series on The Law and Church Counseling. Read Part One Caring Carefully (embed link), Part Two The Legal History and Climate (embed link), Part Three Scope of Care (embed link), and Part Four Quality of Care (embed link). I’m summarizing these posts from material in chapter twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. To learn more about the book, visit Equipping Counselors (embed link http://bit.ly/EC4YC4E).

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The Law and Church Counseling: Part Four—Quality of Care

Posted on 2/13/2012 by Bob Kellemen

Note: You’re reading Part Four in a blog mini-series on The Law and Church Counseling. Read Part One Caring Carefully (embed link), Part Two The Legal History and Climate (embed link), and Part Three Scope of Care (embed link).I’m summarizing these posts from material in chapter twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. To learn more about the book, visit Equipping Counselors (embed link http://bit.ly/EC4YC4E).

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The Law and Church Counseling: Part Three—Scope of Care

Posted on 1/16/2012 by Bob Kellemen

Note: You’re reading Part Three in a blog mini-series on The Law and Church Counseling. Read Part One Caring Carefully (embed link) and Part Two The Legal History and Climate (embed link). I’m summarizing these posts from material in chapter twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. To learn more about the book, visit Equipping Counselors (embed link http://bit.ly/EC4YC4E).

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The Law and Church Counseling: Part Two—The Legal History and Climate

Posted on 12/14/2011 by Bob Kellemen

Note: You’re reading Part Two in a blog mini-series on The Law and Church Counseling. Read Part One Caring Carefully (embed link from Part One). I’m summarizing these posts from material in chapter twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. To learn more about the book, visit Equipping Counselors http://bit.ly/EC4YC4E.

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The Law and Church Counseling: Part One—Caring Carefully

Posted on 11/14/2011 by Bob Kellemen

Note: You’re reading Part One in a blog mini-series on The Law and Church Counseling. I’m summarizing this series from material in chapter twelve of Equipping Counselors for Your Church. To learn more about the book, visit Equipping Counselors (embed link http://bit.ly/EC4YC4E).

The Elephant in the Room

When I discuss legal and ethical issues in my seminars on Equipping Counselors for Your Church, I show a PowerPoint slide with a picture of an elephant in a living room. No one likes to talk about ethical and legal concerns in church counseling. They are often the unspoken elephants in the room that motivate church leaders to squelch biblical counseling ministries.

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How to Be a Biblical Spiritual Friend Part Six: Gospel Conversations—The Remedy to “Take Two Verses and Call Me in the Morning”

Posted on 10/17/2011 by Bob Kellemen

Do you want to remedy the shallow stereotype of “take two verses and call me in the morning?” Are you ready to stop placing band-aids on your friends’ suffering and sin? Then engage in mutual gospel conversations based upon a biblical way of looking at and living life.

Gospel Conversations: Ephesians 4:29

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How to Be a Biblical Spiritual Friend Part Five: Five Scriptural Reasons for Biblical Listening

Posted on 9/21/2011 by Bob Kellemen

Listening carefully to people’s words is biblical, not secular. Listen to what God’s Word teaches about listening to human words:

Words Are Powerful

Words Are Meaningful

Words Convey Soul Messages

Words Are Worthy of Soulful Attentiveness

Words Reflect One of Two Life Interpretations

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