Essentials Flashcards
What does “nous” mean?
Waht does “Titheimi” mean?
What is the Nouthetic definition of counseling?
Mind
To Put Into
“to counsel about avoidance or cessation of an improper course of conduct, admonish, warn, instruct”
Reasons for Christians to be obedient to God
Love of God
A clear conscience
To be useful to God
To bring others to Christ
To receive present blessings from God
To avoid God’s displeasure and discipline
Heavenly rewards
Better relationship with God
Name three common graces that restrain evil
Church
Government
Conscience
What is the process of biblical change?
1) Identify
James 4:1–3 (ESV)
4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
2) Confess
James 4:7 (ESV)
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
3) Seek Forgiveness
James 4:8(a) (ESV)
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
4) Repent
James 4:8(b)–10 (ESV)
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Five ways to give counselee’s hope
Will not be condemned - Romans 8:1 (ESV)
8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Given everything needed for spiritual life - Ephesians 1:3 (ESV)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Guaranteed an eternal inheritance - Ephesians 1:13–14 (ESV)
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Saved from the wrath of God - Romans 5:9 (ESV)
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Became his adopted children - Ephesians 1:5–6 (ESV)
5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Diagnostic Questions in Counseling
1) Are you a Christian?
2) What does being a Christian mean to you?
3) When and how did you become a Christian?
4) How has your life changed since you became a Christian?
5) If you died, and Christ said why should I let you in, what would you say?
How does the counselor know when formal biblical counseling ends?
1) Presenting problem is solved
2) Counselee uses Scripture to address other issues
3) General consistency in the spiritual disciplines displayed during counseling
4) The graduating counselee is prepared for a growing life with God in the context of a local church
What are some aspects of aggressive sanctification?
1) Strive for holiness
Hebrews 12:14 (ESV)
14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
2) Lay aside sin
Hebrews 12:1 (ESV)
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
3) Abstain from immorality
1 Thessalonians 4:3 (ESV)
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4) Purify life
1 John 3:3 (ESV)
3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
5) Flee immorality
1 Corinthians 6:18 (ESV)
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
6) Don’t unite with non-Christians
2 Corinthians 6:14 (ESV)
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
7) Cleanse from defilement
2 Corinthians 7:1 (ESV)
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
8) Live out obedience
James 1:22 (ESV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
9) Exert effort to grow in godliness
2 Peter 1:5 (ESV)
5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
What are the qualifications to be an Elder?
1) Above reproach
2) Monogamous
3) Sound judgment
4) Self-controlled
5) Respected
6) Hospitable
7) Able to teach
8) Not a drunkard
9) Not violent but gentle
10) Not quarrelsome
11) Not a lover of money
12) Manages home
13) Children are submissive
14) Not a recent convert
15) Thought well of by outsiders
What are the qualifications to become a Deacon?
1) Dignified
2) Not double-tongued
3) Not addicted to wine
4) Not greedy
5) Holds to sound doctrine
6) Tested
What are the qualifications of a biblical counselor?
1) Spiritually mature
Galatians 6:1(a) (ESV)
6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
2) Desires restoration
Galatians 6:1(b) (ESV)
6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
3) Gentle
Galatians 6:1(c) (ESV)
6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
4) Self-aware
Galatians 6:1(d) (ESV)
6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
5) Humble
Galatians 6:3 (ESV)
3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
6) Able to discern actions and not merely words
Galatians 6:4 (ESV)
4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
7) Self-applying biblical counsel
Galatians 6:5 (ESV)
5 For each will have to bear his own load.
8) Full of goodness
Romans 15:14 (ESV)
14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
9) Filled with biblical knowledge
Romans 15:14 (ESV)
14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
10) Exercising wisdom
Colossians 1:18 (ESV)
18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Colossians 3:16 (ESV)
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
11) Able to admonish and rebuke
