Abstract
This paper will discuss and explore the Biblical basis for a helps ministry and build a general framework for understanding the basis for discipleship counseling. In addition, the paper will establish an order of importance pertaining to the vital need of discipleship counseling within a helps ministry.
The helping ministry gives special attention to the needs of hurting people through the message that God cares about people and calls us to serve him and his people. This fact will be demonstrated through scripture and from a variety of established counselors currently practicing in the helps ministry.
This paper also will present statistics that will support the tough issues today’s generation is facing in what would be considered in today’s world as the worst of times. It will lastly present the roles of God, the encourager (Discipleship Counselor), and the counselee as it has been presented in the book Discipleship Counseling written by Dr. Neil T. Anderson.
Discipleship Counseling Within the Helps Ministry
Christians can live a free and productive life in Christ however the Church itself is in a dior need of individuals who are experienced in the discipleship process. These individuals …show more content…
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5, KJV). This scripture alone predicts a biblical basis for “Discipleship Counseling” within the Ministry of Helps in today’s