IV. The Use of Scripture in Ministry Flashcards
In each case summarize and describe how you would use biblical texts in teaching or counseling in the following cases.
An opportunity to present the gospel to a non-Christian
Romans 3:10-26
No one is righteous. You have done nothing good in the history of your life and can never earn righteousness. Instead, we have a righteousness of God that is given through faith to all who believe, All about faith not works.
Challenging and encouraging a professed believer who is struggling to overcome a “besetting” or entrenched sin, and directing him to the way of spiritual growth
Ephesians 4:20-24
Put off the old self and put on the new. Remind them of who they are in jesus. That they the blood of Jesus has washed them clean, that he chose you before the foundation of the world, and freed them from slavery to sin. So now walk in that freedom and love Jesus in obedience.
Guiding a professed believer with respect to his calling and decision making, in the worldly affairs of his life
Proverbs 20:5
The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw them out. We are called to know what accords with our natural talents, our desires, and maximizes the glory of God. We should know the sin hidden deep in our hearts that might lead us towards foolishness.
Col 3:23-24
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. Choose the job where they feel like they can truly worship Jesus in the midst of it.
Instructing a young couple in preparation for marriage.
Ephesians 5: 22-33
Explaining their biblical roles as man and woman.
James 4 Quarrels as a revealing of deeper loves and desires–idolatry and sin behind arguments and the need to refocus on worshiping Jesus and offering one another forgiveness for sin.
Instructing new parents in the privileges, responsibilities and duties they have with respect to their children
Deut 6:6-9
And these words thats I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Heb 12:7-11 “Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! 10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
Enlightening and strengthening a professed believer in the midst of a dark or difficult providence
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
1 Peter 1:3-9
Trials are a means of revealing and testing our faith–which, because it is faith that unites us to Christ and gives us a larger hope and eternal inheritance.
Helping a person understand the morality of, and the practical concerns related to, seeking a divorce
Matthew 19
Teaching that divorce is a matter of hardness of heart. Therefore, the questi, because of hardness of heart, looking for permission to do something that God fundamentally hates.
1 Cor 7:10-16
Abandonment
Matthew 5:31-32
Whoever divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Training ruling elder and deacon candidates with respect to the qualifications and duties of their respective offices
1 Timothy 3:1-8
Titus 1:5-9
Helping other congregational members understand what has happened when a professed believer has fallen into some scandalous sin and been excommunicated.
1 Cor 5:1-13
“You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. Purge the evil person from among you
Matthew 18:15-20 The process of rebuke
Encouraging and comforting a professed believer facing death.
1 Cor 15:51-55
Perishable shall put on the imperishable
Rev 21:3-5
He will wipe away every tear from their eye…
John 14:1-6
Let not your heart be troubled, house are many rooms, prepare a place for you…
Psalm 23
Helping a fellow pastor not leave a tough situation which allows “wolves to come in and devour the flock” for which he has been charged with care.
John 10:11-12
Jesus the good shepherd did not leave us to the wolves but lays down his life for the sheep.
Ezekiel 34
The false shepherd abandons and preys upon the sheep and does nothing to protect. Be a true shepherd, as God has been a shepherd to you in Jesus.
Rebuking a fellow elder who is promoting a theological error.
2 Tim 4:2-4 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
