Introduction / Biblical Disciple Making / Counseling Flashcards
What’s the primary, #1 goal in biblical disciple making / counseling and all of life?
To please God, not simply to make people behave or only outwardly change.
“Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.”
2 Corinthians 5:9
“For you have been bought with a price; therefore, glorify God in your body.”
1 Corinthians 6:20
“Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31
The purpose of biblical counseling is to bring counselees into rest and submission to Christ, to help them grow wise.
Dr. Paul David Tripp
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
Matt 22:37
“He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.”
Colossians 1:28-29
“but grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
2 Peter 3:18