Mid Term Problem Questions Flashcards
What are the advantages and limitations of One-another care?
Adv.: These relationships are everywhere in the church
Limits: Not everyone signed up to be a helper
What are the advantages and limitations of Groups/Mentors?
Adv.: Free
Limits: based on the experiences of leaders and members
What are the advantages and limitations of Educated counselors
Adv.: invidiualised care
limits: not easy to access because of time and training limitations
What are the advantages and limitations of Experienced counselors
Adv.: Understands and is trained to deal with complex issues.
Limits: Costly and hard to sustain.
What are the advantages and limitations of Specialists?
Adv.: excellent for in depth counseling and ministry oversight.
Limits: $$$ and time.
Define ministry as a program
It is something a church launches and is overseen by pastoral staff. It requires continual recruiting and awareness. Tends to be a ‘formal’ thing.
Why is culture the recommended way to cultivate one-another ministry in the church?
because it is more effective to cultivate an intentional conjuration that can care and support one another well. `
Define Pastoral Care
care for individuals initiated by pastors
Define Pastoral counsling
A response to a members request for aid.
What are the there stages of church discipline from Matt 18
1) individual confrontation
2) collective confrontation
3) church wide confrontation
What is the pre stage 1 emphasis?
confessions–a person cannot be convinced or coerced into change. they have to want it and want change
What are the four points of incorporating care well into the process?
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
define meaning of life stuggles
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.
What are the four markers of the spectrum of formality?
m1- artificial pairing
m2 - appointments
m3 - case notes
m4 - monetary exchange
What are the four markers of the spectrum of expertise
m1 - experience
m2 - Certification
m3 - license
What are the four markers of the spectrum of jurisdiction
m1 - peer-ish relationships. leadership with no authority
m2 - in or out authority
m3 - legal/punitive action.
What are give challenges that frequently accompany a church-based counseling ministry?
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
Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry will attract situations where your pastors are not experts.
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.
Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry will not do everything, so you will still need to make referrals.
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.
Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry becomes a lightning rod for hard cases and interpersonal conflicts.
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.
Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry will be a misrepresented caricature by those who dislike the counsel they receive.
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
Describe the advantages to when a counseling ministry deals with challenges on which your church does not have an official stance.
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.
