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(189) If congregants give negative feedback about a preacher/speaker's teaching/preaching is because they did not understand the sermon or the sermon was long with no substance. Anderson proclaims that the pastor is a steward over the people salvation and do not stand between their relationship with them and God. However, he/she corrects and lead/prepare them for the coming Christ. (204) Preparing the congregants about the coming of Christ is not to teach/preach about self-righteous doctrines. The doctrine of self is not the way, the truth and the life. Anderson also states after a church has been spiritual abused, they can recover through reconciliation. (212) For this to happen, the pastor needs to come forth and admitt his selfishness, and arrogance and apologize to the church and to the ones that left so that healing can begin, and the people will not walk around harboring bitterness and regret.

In this chapter the author asks a very important set of related questions. He asks, “Why do people come for counseling? What do they want to accomplish? What are your goals in trying to help people through counseling?” The author makes the point that most people who seek out Christian Counseling don’t do it because they need help with prayer or spiritual growth. They come to counseling because of issues such as marriage problems or some major crisis. The author states that, “These people need counseling that involves something other than evangelism, one-to-one preaching, or traditional Christian education.” To complement this statement of the goal of Christian Counseling the author says this in chapter forty-two, “Christian counseling can have a variety of goals, but at its core is the effort to help people find peace with God, peace with others, and peace with themselves. Sometimes, this peace comes closer when people admit their problems and talk about their feelings, acquire better interpersonal and communication skills, change their attitudes and control harmful thought patterns, get insights into their own actions, and learn how to change their ways of doing things. All of these are ways in which counselors help people to face and cope with the conflicts that block or disrupt peace.” In many ways these goals are the goals of the preacher. Preachers are seeking to lead people to Christ that they might have peace with God, others, and themselves, as they are forgiven of their sins by being baptized into Christ. They are at that point reconciled with God and Jesus also brings peace between them and others that is the church, the new humanity. Certainly the Christian counselor and the preacher are working to bring about peace with God in the lives of individuals in different ways and no man will have peace with God without first being immersed into Christ, but the counselor and the

In This Wise, the New Testament calls for the highest standard of reputation, ethics, training and conduct for us as help givers.-If we will be the channel of Gods healing to the populations wherein we live.

Though the world has advanced in science, technology, and cultural advances through literature, music, and philosophy, some bad have lasted throughout the centuries. Violence and addiction are still present in today’s society. Whether in the area of what was labelled “Chi-raq”, where gang violence is reaching highs in homicides, or across the country, where unemployment and job insecurity have made suicides and drug abuse among white middle age men the highest it has ever been. Despite being what could be called modern problems, the Bible has many verses that could help or give spiritual advice to these people struggling in the world today.

Chapter 1 is entitled Someone Worth Losing Everything For. In this chapter there are many different incidents and principles that are introduced to draw the reader into a deeper awareness that there are many people in this world that need saved. The first incident talked about was “ Puddles of Tears.” The scenarios in this incident describes leaders meeting in a dimly lit room with all blinds closed. They have come together to discuss prayer needs and inadequacies of how they can relate better and have some answers for the people in their underground home churches. Some leaders talked about their members getting kidnapped while others spoke of losing everything, including their life for the mere cause of following Christ. Puddles of tears fell from their faces as “they audibly wept before God…” Some even

Learning about prophets, accentuates the importance of teaching context and culture. Observing context and culture demonstrates why people did and said what they did. Whenever we preach the Gospel, it is important that we accurately teach God’s Word; otherwise the congregants will be misled and

In a world that does not know the Gospel anymore, we must indulge in it, and love our fellow community though they may not share similar values, but find balancing in still remaining in our own values. Though many of times we find ourselves in opposition of the majority of the world, we must exude Christ love onto others as He does to us unconditionally. The author addresses ways in which we are able to live out our faith and still find a place within our community though they may not share similar values.

Fay and Shepherd are to be commended for creating this thought provoking book. The authors persuasively implored Christians to encompass witnessing into their lives, then supported their points with specific biblical guidance. For example, when confronted with an individual who declines to accept Jesus because they believe they will be unable to live a Christian life the authors provided Phil. 4:13 as the scriptural response. They were successful in conveying their deep concern for unchurched and lost souls.

Chapter two starts off with the author talk about his education of true christian counseling before settling on one called the discipleship approach (Collins, 23). Readers explore some people-helper principals; starting with “the helper.” This principal starts out citing Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia in which Paul instructed the leaders there to “restore” the individuals who were apparently struggling with sin and other issues (23). Paul instructs that only those who are spiritual may help the struggling individuals so that the struggling individuals may get the real help they need by means of healthy, loving caring relationships. In principal two, we learn how to help people that can be difficult to penetrate

In the Son, we unearth how haphazardly, maybe hopelessly, we wait for them to change or adhere to our demands; as if we have total control of their behavior. In our naïve, frivolous psyche, God continuously meets then teaches us to direct love, compassion and forbearance for the peculiar, confrontational or diverse people He has set an appointment for us to encounter at certain junctures in our lives. In Him, we have the wisdom to use our tongue to speak love, to let go differences with forgiveness, and to demonstrate compassion through mercy towards those who are either hostile towards, in opposition to or lack understanding of our spiritual

The setting is the Mt. Olivet talk and the story is warned to the disciples.The occasion is the servant leaving giving the control of his workers to watch and deal with everything. Educating to take after human beings needs trust and he gave his servants an errand most completed.One worker recovered the gold and got five more, and others took the cash from the servant.Its about trust and gold telling individuals utilize their gifts he's gave them. The abilities allow god to give an exceptional blessing regardless of what it is. God needs you to spread your faith to help other people, and let that rub onto other individuals. When you help other people you never know how far that gets out. God takes away what you don't utilize and could offer it to others, for example, life. Try not to underestimate things take advantage of your opportunities in the best way you possibly as you can. It can be taken away quickly. God has confidence in being equivalent. Likewise by you helping other people makes everybody upbeat by not taking your thoughtfulness for shortcomings. Also, the third servant strategy does not work to a sufficient standard to gain his lord's trust. The worker has disregarded some extreme esteem or first guideline: he conveys his lord's assets to no expansion, and by that exclusion he forces himself to

The Gospel of Luke serves to provide a model for people to engage in issues that affect communities: such as poverty, health, and exclusion of certain peoples. Luke’s gospel interprets the story of Jesus from apparent eyewitness accounts and conveys a perspective of his own communal ideal in response to these socially and ethically based issues. Luke will represent Jesus’ attempt at building a community of followers that would accompany him in his preparation of the kingdom of God for the Jewish community. The purpose of this essay is to recognize and express the relationship between community

Romans chapter twelve verses one and two provide key spiritual advice that is still useful today. At the time, Paul, the author of Romans, was writing to the people of Rome and urged them to turn away from their desires of the world to God’s desires for them. Today, Paul’s advice is still important because there is constant temptation that will lead people away from God. God’s plan for his people is not going to be exactly what they want, but it will lead them to heaven which is the ultimate goal. Paul’s spiritual guidance of turning our focus from the world to God’s plan was helpful in converting early Christians and is helpful when dealing with current issues.

We shake our heads in disbelief at the conditions of our world today. But, is our world that much different today than it had been for the disciples? The problems may vary, but for the Christian, the challenges are much the same. Luke's words in Acts 4:12 are just as pertinent today as they were 2000+ years ago. Due to our society's views on Christianity, I have found myself back away from a potential conversation for fear of a confrontation especially since people have become more aggressive in defending their beliefs. Then I am reminded that we are "to speak the word with boldness" (Acts 4:31) as the disciples had done. "When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished

The purpose of this essay is for this Author to analyze taking responsibility when in conflict to include: 1) Biblical perspectives on personal responsibility and confession; 2) Current conflict and roles; 3) Understanding personal responsibility; 4) Confessions of wrong. Background This author feels that one the most important aspects of the evidence of Spiritual maturity is for Christians is to accept responsibility in conflict and do their best to resolving the problem. With this said, the Author Alfred Poirier stated that “every time we are in conflict, we need to consider the part we have played and confess it.” Moreover, if conflicts are not resolved along with having a rancorous heart and speaking the wrong things the offender and/or the defender will never have a life of abundance and will never be spiritually healed.