Mid Term Problem Questions

Question 1

What are the advantages and limitations of One-another care?

Answer 1

Adv.: These relationships are everywhere in the church
Limits: Not everyone signed up to be a helper

Question 2

What are the advantages and limitations of Groups/Mentors?

Answer 2

Adv.: Free
Limits: based on the experiences of leaders and members

Question 3

What are the advantages and limitations of Educated counselors

Answer 3

Adv.: invidiualised care
limits: not easy to access because of time and training limitations

Question 4

What are the advantages and limitations of Experienced counselors

Answer 4

Adv.: Understands and is trained to deal with complex issues.
Limits: Costly and hard to sustain.

Question 5

What are the advantages and limitations of Specialists?

Answer 5

Adv.: excellent for in depth counseling and ministry oversight.
Limits: $$$ and time.

Question 6

Define ministry as a program

Answer 6

It is something a church launches and is overseen by pastoral staff. It requires continual recruiting and awareness. Tends to be a ‘formal’ thing.

Question 7

Why is culture the recommended way to cultivate one-another ministry in the church?

Answer 7

because it is more effective to cultivate an intentional conjuration that can care and support one another well. `

Question 8

Define Pastoral Care

Answer 8

care for individuals initiated by pastors

Question 9

Define Pastoral counsling

Answer 9

A response to a members request for aid.

Question 10

What are the there stages of church discipline from Matt 18

Answer 10

1) individual confrontation
2) collective confrontation
3) church wide confrontation

Question 11

What is the pre stage 1 emphasis?

Answer 11

confessions–a person cannot be convinced or coerced into change. they have to want it and want change

Question 12

What are the four points of incorporating care well into the process?

Answer 12

1) define the problem, its motives, and its impact.
2) envolving the right people In a wise way.
3) track followthrough and markers in a tangible way.
4) decide next steps of change, Restoration v. removal

Question 13

define meaning of life stuggles

Answer 13

the way a person has made sense of life no longer accounts for the challenges theyre facing or their stage in life. these are questions of eternal significance.

Question 14

What are the four markers of the spectrum of formality?

Answer 14

m1- artificial pairing
m2 - appointments
m3 - case notes
m4 - monetary exchange

Question 15

What are the four markers of the spectrum of expertise

Answer 15

m1 - experience
m2 - Certification
m3 - license

Question 16

What are the four markers of the spectrum of jurisdiction

Answer 16

m1 - peer-ish relationships. leadership with no authority
m2 - in or out authority
m3 - legal/punitive action.

Question 17

What are give challenges that frequently accompany a church-based counseling ministry?

Answer 17

1) A counseling ministry will not do everything, so you will still need to make referrals.
2) A counseling ministry becomes a lightning rod for hard cases and interpersonal conflicts.
3) A counseling ministry will be a misrepresented caricature by those who dislike the counsel they receive.
4) A counseling ministry will attract situations where your pastors are not experts.
5) A counseling ministry deals with challenges on which your church does not have an official stance

Question 18

Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry will attract situations where your pastors are not experts.

Answer 18

these situations require pastors and other church leaders to express healthy humility and learn from experts in other disciplines. It also provides an opportunity for pastors to shepherd the congregation in how to honor personal autonomy of others even when they disagree with a wisdom decision they are making. Learning from experts in other fields is an excellent way to bring nuance and a tender humble tone to the way difficult subjects like mental health, addiction, and abuse are addressed in a church’s preaching and teaching ministries.

Question 19

Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry will not do everything, so you will still need to make referrals.

Answer 19

if managed and networked well, a counseling ministry can serve as a connection point to both community resources that provide need specific counseling and discipleship ministries of the church for one another care.

Question 20

Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry becomes a lightning rod for hard cases and interpersonal conflicts.

Answer 20

the situations already exist. Having a counseling ministry does not create them. but an advantage of an effective counseling ministry is that it allows these situations to be handled in stages. When someone is in the early stages of processing their pain, it is often hard for them to have the emotional bandwidth of address the interpersonal fallout.

Question 21

Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry will be a misrepresented caricature by those who dislike the counsel they receive.

Answer 21

because both G4 and GCM are curriculum based, it allows your church to be transparent about the content of what is counseled without disclosing specifics of an individual’s story. This is an advantage that does not exist when lay counselors are operating as general practitioners and developing a care plan for each counseling relationship

Question 22

Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry deals with challenges on which your church does not have an official stance.

Answer 22

these new skills of care and influences are vital for holistic pastoral care. Too often, hard decisions are oversimplified with the belief that the experts our there don’t agree with our theology. Sometimes external experts don’t have views that conflict with fundamental beliefs of the church. But often they are just approaching the same subject with different questions. Having a ministry that grapples with these things in theologically responsible ways helps prevent a church from artificially simplifying multidimensional questions. Pastors become better shepherds as they become less teacher only, as this happens.