1. Personal study and group study of confrontation as an interactive process in contrast to the common ‘lecture’ approach to rebuke and correction.
2. Personal study and group study of application of specific Scriptures (more than 30) to the concrete life situation of a person.
3. Personal study and groups study of how Scripture (more than 200 texts!) saturated the thinking of the counsellor and governed the ministry responses of the counsellor.
4. Stimulating consideration and discussion of alternative responses by the counsellor at various junctures, and the reasons these different paths of ministry may be wise.
5. As a counselling demonstration ‘script’ for rehearsal and presentation in local church training.
6. As a counselling demonstration ‘script’ for use (in whole or in part) within the context of Bible colleges, seminaries, counselling institutes, workshops, seminars, etc.
7. As an illustration of the practical theology contained in Catechism for Counsellors.
8. As an objective written account for evaluation, critique and discussion with skeptics, opponents and those with questions about the practice of biblical counselling.
9. As a vivid concrete, non-theoretical portrayal of biblical counselling in action for pastors and church authorities for evaluation of the Storehouse and Coram Deo approach to counselling.
10. As an encouragement to those disheartened by bad experiences of counselling, and in conjunction with When You Need Help for selecting a counsellor that will truly help.
11. As an encouragement to those considering counselling, but confused with the varied approaches in the counselling world.
12. Training inexperienced counsellors through learning well in role plays sections of this counsellling dialogue as one way to bring God’s Scalpel to the heart of a person.
13. By presenting sections of this counselling dialogue with wrong ways of case management, the teacher may vividly emphasize the contrast of biblical ministry to unbiblical ministry.
14. Personal and group study of case management from the perspective of how the counsellee was influenced, impacted and responded, and what messages were receive by the counsellee at various junctures.
15. Personal and group study of the concrete use of the law and the Gospel in a counselling setting.
16. Personal and group study of ministry that strives to keep Christ and the Cross central to Christian ministry.
17. In formal training curriculum, sections of the counselling dialogue may be assigned for demonstration, biblical evaluation, presentation of alternative strategies and their theological bases (in personal presentation and in written form).
18. To challenge those who affirm the Reformation position of sola Scriptura but seem stuck in theoretical debate and unable to articulate how such ministry functions or what it looks like in practice.
19. As an assigned reading text in formal training programs, with various application projects designed for student growth.
20. For increasing one’s ability to apply specific Scriptures in personal ministry with compassion and in a manner that avoids harshness, insensitivity and lording-it-over another person.

Ron Harris
July 2010

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