Nouthetic Counselling 1

1 Introduction

Introduce the Speaker.

Give contact: email and HP no.

Changes to Examinations and Requirements.

Examination.

2 Straits Times Article on Doreen Kho

Expectation - practical Christian living.

3 Recapped / Summary on Nouthetic Counselling

Recapped.

Nouthetic Counselling

Is a system (a certain way for it to work) and

method (a certain way of doing}.

Its is not man’s way.

Nouthetic Counselling: Practical Theology and Practical Christian Living.

Its GOD’s way.

As such, there is a certain way to do it.

A right way and a wrong way to do counselling.

Nouthetic Counselling: Practical Theology and Practical Christian Living.

Bringing GOD and Scripture to the people.

Examination.

Expectation - practical Christian living.

Counselling:

New Material

A Comparison between different Counselling

3 Main branches of counselling in Christendom.

Nouthetics.

Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) 3805 νουθετέω

3805 νουθετέω (noutheteō): vb.; ≡ Str 3560; TDNT 4.1019—1. LN 33.231 instruct, teach on proper behavior and belief (Ro 15:14; 1Th 5:12+); 2. LN 33.418 admonish, rebuke for a wrong done (1Th 5:14), for another interp, see next; 3. LN 33.424 warn, advise on the consequences of a wrong action (Ac 20:31; 1Co 4:14; Col 1:28; 3:16; 2Th 3:15+; Tit 1:11 v.r. NA26), for another interp, see prior; note there may be overlap in the verses and entries

Can be summarised into 3 Cs.

Confront.

Confront.

Concern.

Concern.

Change.

Change.

Biblical.

2. Biblical.

Include the original group from reformed churches out of Westminster and the rest of Christendom.

Include the original group from reformed churches out of Westminster and the rest of Christendom.

Christian.

3. Christian.

Anyone who calls himself a Christian; including those who do not believe in the Bible nor Christ

Anyone who calls himself a Christian; including those who do not believe in the Bible nor Christ

What is right about psychology and psychiatry (some facts)?

Good scientific studies/data.

A psychiatrist can dispense medicine/drugs.

What’s wrong with Psychology and Psychiatry?

No agreement amongst themselves regarding their theories.

Bad conclusion - its another theology.

Its anti GOD - Freud removing guilt.

Gives false hope - chemical imbalance, genetics,

The medicine does affects the body and mind but if does not solve the soul problem.

“A Nouthetic Ministry” By Donn Arms

4 Nouthetic Counselling is Unique.

Nouthetic is monogenes – the only one of a kind

The atmosphere.

The Holy Spirit is present and working in people’s lives.

B The counselor/counselee relationship is not primary

The counselor/counselee relationship is not primary.

1 There is a seriousness about the session

There is a seriousness about the session.

The counseling issue is a matter between the counselee and God, not the counselor.

2 The counseling issue is a matter between the counselee and God, not the counselor

C A number of different things happen in a biblical counseling session

A number of different things happen in a biblical counseling session.

We open and use the Bible.

1 We open and use the Bible

2 We pray and ask God to do something

We pray and ask God to do something.

3 We instruct the counselee to do what pleases God

We instruct the counselee to do what pleases God.

We submit to God and His Word.

4 We submit to God and His Word

We call on the counselee to repent and change.

5 We call on the counselee to repent and change

You must make your counselee aware of the uniqueness of the environment in your counseling room.

D You must make your counselee aware of the uniqueness of the environment in your counseling room

The Counsellee.

Your counselees are “saints”

A Your counselees are “saints”

Someone who is set apart, different.

2 They have the Spirit of God dwelling within them ()

They have the Spirit of God dwelling within them ()

They are capable of change. .

B They are capable of change

1 So we do not give up on our counselees

So we do not give up on our counselees.

2 We expect change because we know they can change

We expect change because we know they can change.

C They can understand the Bible

They can understand the Bible, .

The objective.

The goal of others: help counselees solve problems; get relief.

B Your goal for your counselee: to please God!

Your goal for your counselee: to please God! .

The method.

Other methods may seem the same as ours, but they are quite different.

Means are similar, methods are unique.

1 Means are similar, methods are unique

● Means: how we accomplish our ends

Means: how we accomplish our ends.

Talk.

 Talk

Listening.

 Listening

Skinner would have never used Rogers’ methods, nor Rogers Skinner’s.

 Listening

● Skinner would have never used Rogers’ methods, nor Rogers Skinner’s

● Methods: the application of means to an end, that are committed to the goals of a system

Methods: the application of means to an end, that are committed to the goals of a system.

Christians cannot pull methods from secular systems and hope to produce results that please God.

 Talk

e.g.—temperament personality theory.

2 Christians cannot pull methods from secular systems and hope to produce results that please God

● e.g.—temperament personality theory

Our methods must flow from the Bible.

● Our methods must flow from the Bible

Examples of our methods.

3 Examples of our methods

Pray.

● Pray

Church Discipline.

● Church Discipline

The setting.

Your counseling will be in conjunction with the church.

1 Churches should not have counseling centers

Churches should not have counseling centers.

Churches should be counseling centers.

2 Churches should be counseling centers

Every church member should be able to counsel others in the church.

B Every church member should be able to counsel others in the church

Galatians 6:1 KJV 1900

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Galatians 6:1 KJV 1900

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

John Calvin on .

This is the second point, that he did not only teach all men in the congregation, but also every one privately, as every man’s necessity did require. For Christ hath not appointed pastors upon this condition, that they may only teach the Church in general in the open pulpit; but that they may take charge of every particular sheep, that they may bring back to the sheepfold those which wander and go astray, that they may strengthen those which are discouraged and weak, that they may cure the sick, that they may lift up and set on foot the feeble, (;) for common doctrine will oftentimes wax cold, unless it be holpen (helped) with private admonitions.

Wherefore, the negligence of those men is inexcusable, who, having made one sermon, as if they had done their task, live all the rest of their time idly; as if their voice were shut up within the church walls, seeing that so soon as they be departed, thence they be dumb.

The NIV Application Commentary: Galatians Spiritual People Should Bear One Another’s Burdens (vv. 1–5)

I BEGIN BY trying to put together these verses, perhaps the hardest unit when it comes to the matter of the flow of the ideas. Paul begins by stating a problem: restoring a sinful brother (v. 1). This is followed by the underlying principle to solve the problem, namely, that spiritual people (i.e., those who “live in the Spirit”) need to be responsible for one another and look after one another (v. 2).

McKnight, Scot. Galatians. The NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995.

Galatians True Spirituality

True spirituality is not an individualistic quest for self-fulfillment—the kind of thing one has to climb to the top of a pillar to discover. The life of the Spirit flourishes for the sake of others. It is not experienced in private, primarily, but exercised in public. Therefore, it does not grow in isolation, but within the community of faith. Spiritual life is meant to be shared. It is less like a fruit tree hidden away somewhere in a secret garden, and more like one that grows in a public park.

Ryken, Philip Graham. Galatians. Edited by Richard D. Phillips, Philip Graham Ryken, and Daniel M. Doriani. Reformed Expository Commentary. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2005.

Ryken, Philip Graham. Galatians. Edited by Richard D. Phillips, Philip Graham Ryken, and Daniel M. Doriani. Reformed Expository Commentary. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2005.

The incentive.

All your counseling will have eternal consequences.

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B You will be able to make promises that are guaranteed by God ()

You will be able to make promises that are guaranteed by God ()

The results.

Counselees will be edified ().

God will be glorified.

B God will be glorified

C Even when all seems to fail

Even when all seems to fail

The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Nouthetic is monogenes – the only one of a kind

B monogenes – the only one of a kind

Changes to Examinations and Requirements.

Examination.

Expectation - practical Christian living.