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A Theology of Spiritual Health: Chastening, Pruning & Self-Confrontation: Have you ever thought about the common elements we see all around us that touch on improving our physical well-being like dieting, weight loss and steps to better health?

Often, after a diagnosis of looming poorer health, such as diabetes, heart problems, joint stress, and so on, there is a conscious desire to follow a plan of exercise, healthy eating, limiting certain items that hinder the goal.

That is exactly what so much of discipleship and counseling is about. People come to the point of spiritual ill-health. They don’t like what they see in their various symptoms, some they see and others they do not.

Signs of Spiritual Bad Health: What are a few symptoms of spiritual bad health? These are just a few of the very common spiritual discipleship & counseling areas we will deal with when counseling others:

1. CHECK THEIR APPETITE: Believers with poor or even no appetite for the Word, fellowship, spiritual growth, or much to do with God.

2. CHECK THEIR HABITS: Believers addicted to anger, fear, self-pity, or to influences that are harmful (occult images, sensual images, horror images, un –biblical romance images, materialistic-driven goals in life, pride-driven lives, etc.).

3. CHECK THEIR EXERCISE: Believers experiencing: spiritual lethargy, lack of strength to resist temptation, inability to flee lust, constant bouts of defeat, paralyzing guilt, re-occurring seasons where they lack assurance of salvation and complete forgiveness, etc.

Each of these common symptoms point to lack of spiritual health. God’s recovery program for these and most other symptoms is sanctification. Sanctification is a spiritual work that God does.

Discipleship is the way that God trains believers through other believers. All of us should be life-long discipling-counselors. Great Commission Living is Life-Long Discipleship & Counseling

Jesus said we are all to go everywhere we are and be a part of the process of making disciples. That involves “teaching them to observe all things” that Christ has commanded. That process is what most of us call discipleship and counseling.

Christ's church is designed to be nurtured most deeply by small group, and mostly one-on-one discipleship & counseling. That is how truths are taught, mentored, and nurtured in a relationship of accountability and encouragement (nurture and admonition as Paul calls in in Eph. 6:4).

That is why we have geared up for this two year long marathon run. This is a training center for long-term discipleship & counseling. The lessons are each building upon this Biblical Foundation of who we are in Christ.

This Discipleship & Counseling 101 course is a series of 24 building blocks:

• Lesson One: The Supernatural Work of Salvation (Ephesians 2:8-9)
• Lesson Two: The Necessity of Self-Confrontation for Sanctification (Matthew 7:1,5)

Foundational Truths: Here are the foundational truths we are building upon in our study of Biblical Counseling & Discipleship:

1. Biblical Counseling is Supernatural: God does the work through the Word (John 17:17).
2. Biblical Counseling is not a technique: it is a chosen way of life, of walking in the light and truth (I John 1:7).
3. Biblical Counseling is Personal Sanctification: we must first learn to deal with the flesh in our own lives; so we confess imperfection (1 Thes. 5:23).
4. Biblical Counseling is Personal Discipleship: we are explaining to others how to be followers of Christ, like we are (1 Cor.4:16; 11:1; Phil. 3:17).

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