Shepherding Saturday
Catagory for Posts about how Christian principles impact living. This category will contain both ethical topics and biblical counseling topics. These topics help guide Christians in living everyday to the glory of Christ Jesus.
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All Problems Are Spiritual Problems We cannot forget that the reason that we have problems at all comes from the spiritual warfare that first occurred in the Garden of Eden. Whether by suffering or enticement, each one of us must war against sinful desires. As James 1:14-15 tells us temptation, leads to desire. Desire conceives
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So when we begin a shepherding call we want to… Assess the Presenting Problem. To do this we must listen carefully to the person. Let’s read James 1:18 We also must ask good questions, seeking to become involved in the gritty details of this person’s life so that we might understand them.[2] (Proverbs 18:2 & 13).
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As a brief review, we have been examining the framework given to us in Jeremiah 17:5-13 for analyzing problems biblically. Ever problem has a root issue residing in the person’s posture towards God. We also discovered that the root issue will produce good fruit or bad fruit in that person’s life that is easily visible.
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From the prior section, we agreed that Jeremiah 17 teaches us that every problem has a root issue in the heart or inward posture of a person towards God. Thus every problem at its core is a spiritual problem. Further, for shepherds, the goal must always be treating the root problem, not symptoms that a
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Before we can help people with their problems, we must understand their problematic situations. To do this, it is helpful for us to consider how we can analyze their problems and situations biblically. Jeremiah 17:5-13 gives us a good guide to begin understanding the differing dimensions of a problem situation. Before we begin to examine
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You might ask, “what if the person who comes to me for counsel has a medical or a psychological diagnosis?” First, make sure to understand and affirm that God created us with both a body and a soul, thus it is wise for shepherds to encourage regular medical care. The “two aspects of our nature
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As shepherds we have been called to address all sorts of problems. Like the shepherds of Israel in Ezekiel 34 we have been called deal with the problems in God’s flock. We must deal with God’s sheep, as imperfect and problematic as they are. Sometimes we must strengthen the weak, at other times we heal
Let the Shepherd Lead 