“The Physician’s Instruments.”  

ISBN 966-966-50-2-7 

*A resource for pastors, counsellors, mentors, disciplers 

*37 specific tools for biblical diagnosing and healing 

*Includes direction sheets for correct use of instruments 

*A useful collection of helps for the ‘medical bag’ of

every spiritual helper  

For the pastor, church leader, discipler, mentor or maturing Christian who understands the framework of biblical soul care and desires numerous practical teaching tools for application of Scripture to personal ministry issues. Such a leader/mentor may use this resource in one of the following ways:

1. A counsellor - for personal study and preparation before each meeting with a counsellee.
2. A counsellor - selecting appropriate instruments as helps to apply Scripture to the life of each counsellee according to the spiritual tasks in various stages of the counselling process.
3. A counsellor - reproducing the selected instruments for instructional use in face-to-face work with counsellees.
4. A counsellor - using the instrument as a visual aid to clarify important principles.
5. A counsellor - presenting a copy of the visual aid to the counsellee, instructing and assigning the counsellee the task of repeating the instruction to a friend during the next week.
6. A counsellor - during a counselling session progressively drawing an instrument from the book while explaining its sequential logic or making application to the counsellee, asking the counsellee to draw his/her own copy.
7. A counsellor - presenting a completed instrument figure or diagram as a summary of the counsellor’s instruction during the session.
8. A counsellor - giving a certain instrument to a counsellee as an assignment to complete and bring to the next session.
9. A counsellor - showing certain instruments as a visual aid to answering questions of the counsellee during sessions.
10. A teacher - copying individual instrument graphics for illustrative purposes when teaching the purpose, values and directions for use of the particular instruments.
11. A teacher - demonstrating through a role play how a certain instrument can be used in counselling, and then distributing the instrument to the observing students.
12. A pastor - studying certain instruments as a stimulant to concrete applicatory preaching of Scripture.
13. A pastor - to assist in preparing a sermon series on ‘personal ministry,’ ‘counselling one another,’ ‘how to counsel yourself,’ etc.
14. A pastor - to assist him as he explains to his spiritual leadership team how and why he proceeded in a counselling case with a church member as he did.
15. A pastor - to expedite training of his leadership team in biblical soul care, in formal or informal training sessions.
16. A pastor - to provide a personal project tool (copy of an instrument) to a church member who requests help in handling a personal challenge.
17. A pastor - show the detailed resources of the book to motivate a person who seems sceptical about the counselling process or its practical benefits.
18. A pastor - display (in a quick overview) the 37 instruments to a church member whom you are referring to a trained lay person to build confidence in that counsellor and show that you have knowledge of the kinds of resources he/she will be using.
19. A pastor - copy an instrument and project on a screen at regional leadership meetings to promote the counselling ministry in the pastor’s church or region.
20. A pastor - arrange with Ruka Dopomogi or Coram Deo to obtain copies of Instruments for sale to all counselling students trained by the pastor in his church so each one will have the right to make copies for face-to-face ministry

Ron Harris
July 2010

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