One of the major blessings of biblical counseling is that it naturally brings a missional mindset. I love that. Strong churches are not content to allow those around them to hurt without seeking to compassionately care. I was training at one of our Launch partners in Long Island, NY and was thrilled to hear about their new plans to engage their community. … Read More
Create Your Own Small Group Counseling Training: Five Advantages
You can train online by yourself, or you can join a large group training in an auditorium with hundreds of others, but they both fail to provide some key benefits. At BCC, we’ve found that biblical counseling training is most effective when you train with small groups. In fact, we often recommend to pastors, churches, and individuals that one of … Read More
A Plan for Better Discipleship
A pastor at one of our Launch partnership churches, Michael Wallenmeyer, recently shared a quote he picked up at a conference, “If the disciples we are making, aren’t making disciples, are we making disciple of Jesus?” This mission is at the core of why we train churches to biblically counsel, or as we often call it “intensified, personalized discipleship.” Does … Read More
Four Disadvantages of Outsourcing Counseling
In my seminary’s counseling class, professors challenged the pastoral training class to find a good counselor or psychologist and outsource the vast majority of their counseling once they became pastors. The professors explained that the risks, frustrations, and relational pitfalls of counseling people would far outweigh the benefits that a pastor devoted to counseling might see. For many in the class, … Read More
Moving Your Church in the Right Direction with Biblical Counseling
At the bottom of this post is a free resource called 5 Mistakes Churches Make When Starting a Counseling Ministry. In previous posts, we’ve asserted that: Biblical counseling is an opportunity to shepherd the church well Churches should embrace equipping one another to care for the body in creative and unique ways I don’t believe you can fulfill the whole … Read More
