Equipping Counselors for Your Church

Equipping Counselors for Your Church: The 4e Ministry Training Strategy

The best way to leave a legacy is to equip others to leave their own. ECFCLeaders want to change lives, and the best leaders know that a truly effective ministry must train its members to become leaders themselves. After all, God’s people want to change lives too—but we are all tired of approaches that promise much and deliver little. We are ready for an equipping ministry that is comprehensive, easy to implement, and relationship-oriented; not program-focused.

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Group Health Indicators

An effective support-recovery group ministry requires a group of individuals to be willing to listen, understand, and work together towards a common goal of growth. For that to happen, group leaders and participants must all play their part to ensure that a group remains healthy. In order to determine the health of groups there are two categories of key factors to evaluate: tangible and intangible. Continue reading

Side by Side

Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love

Practical Guidance for Loving Others Well

Everyone needs help from time to time, especially in the midst of painful circumstancesSidebySide and difficult trials. In this short book, a highly respected biblical counselor and successful author offers practical guidance for all Christians—pastors and laypeople alike—who want to develop their “helping skills” when it comes to walking alongside hurting people.

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Developments in Biblical Counseling

Developments in Biblical Counseling

Are you looking for a brief introduction to what the biblical counseling movement is DIBCand how it has changed over the years? In Developments in Biblical Counseling, J. Cameron Fraser turns a journalistic eye to this question and presents a concise assessment. Introducing us to the formative work of Jay Adams, Fraser outlines several themes of biblical counseling that became foundational for the movement as a whole and observes how the movement received criticisms from outside and made necessary developments from within. Continue reading