Speak The Truth

Show Resources:  John Frame : Systematic Theology An Introduction to the Christian Faith  Tim Challies - Visual Theology Extravagant GraceBiblical Counseling Basics

Episode Notes:As believers, we’re counseling from a very different location than the secular person. The secular world counsels to the ego, a man-centered location. Whereas, the believer is being counseled from a theocentric perspective, a God-centered perspective on life. In order to know ourselves, we must know the God of scripture. We cannot truly know ourselves, unless we know God. Hence, being made is God’s image, Gen. 1.26-27. A right understanding of this helps us to think through reasoning our circumstances from God downward to us instead of reasoning upward to God. Our theology matters when we begin to ask questions to interpret the why behind our pain and suffering. In other words, the Omni’s of God’s attributes; his omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, has everything to do with our circumstances and response. Show References:Jeremy Lelek’s book: Biblical Counseling BasicsColossians 1.13; Deuteronomy 29:29; Proverbs 3:5-6 St. Augustine: The City of GodEric Johnson's God & Soul Care: The Therapeutic Resources of the Christian FaithJohn Calvin: Institutes of the Christian ReligionA.W. Tozer: knowing God Jay Adams: Competent to CounselDavid Powlison - Christian Counseling Education Foundation Thomas Brooks: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

Show Description: Jeremy concludes the discussion regarding biblical counseling and its implications on the local church. He demonstrates from Ephesians 4:11-16, that equipping the Saints for the work of the ministry has immediate implications on the church’s ability to equip the believers for one another ministry even to the extent of intensive discipleship, which is biblical counseling.  Is there a difference between discipleship and counseling?  We’re convinced that there isn’t much difference in terms of the believers responsibility to minister to one another. Discipleship can be viewed categorically; there is intentional discipleship, leading believers to know God’s Word, growing in their knowledge and grace of God. And then intensive discipleship and corrective discipleship, where it’s issue specific or topically specific. Then corrective, where sin is involved towards God and one another. All of this is in the scope biblical counseling and discipleship.    Jeremy in the urgency to one another well with our brothers and sisters in Christ, reminds us that if we’re not barring their burdens, they’re getting help from the secular world that isn’t producing gospel-centered responses to what they're going through. Our culture is overly psychologized and if we’re continuing in our passivity and not being intentional with our neighbor, we’re not presenting a gospel that really saves. Like Eph. 4:14, modern psychology has a doctrine, and it’s humanistic. Look at the self-help section in book stores or literary genres online, it's “me-istic”. Let's push to get biblical counseling back in our local church!! Show References: Jeremy's Book: Biblical Counseling Basics: its Roots, beliefs, and future Quote Cited: “genuine biblical counseling cannot be effectively practice in isolation from the church.” pg.167 Scripture focus: Ephesians 4:11-14Paul Tripp: Your Walk with God is a Community ProjectSociety Life Magazine: Everyday Counselor Piece Robby Gallaty: Replicate MinistriesAssociation of Biblical Counselors: Equipped To Counsel

In this episode, Jeremy provides a distinction between “Christian counseling”, and Biblical Counseling, their theories and methodologies. And then an historical survey of soul care from the time of St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, The Puritans acute knowledge and awareness of soul care, to Martin Luther, and through the modernist movement that pioneered the scope of modern psychology as we know it today, and then provides the state of urgency for the local church today. Episode Links:Jeremy Lelek's Book - Biblical Counseling BasicsSt Augustine - brief autobiographyThomas Aquinas - brief autobiographyMartin Luther - Bondage of the will Richard Baxter - The Christian DirectoryModernist Movement:  Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Frued, Carl RogersDavid Powlison - 2nd Generation Biblical Counseling Movement (please pray for David, he has cancer)Paul Tripp - 2nd Generation Biblical Counseling MovementInstruments in The Redeemer's Hands: Love, Know, Speak, Do

In this episode, our hosts take time to introduce themselves; their personal lives, ministry lives, and church lives. They share their journey’s of following Jesus and how The LORD has used their lives to impact others. Mike & Shauna talk about their early years of marriage and struggles, work and career paths, and God's Sovereign plan in their lives. The founding of Truth Renewed Ministries. Jeremy shares God's early hand in bringing about his family, his pathway for his profession as a licensed professional counselor and founder of Metroplex Counseling & Association of Biblical counselors. The Hosts talk a little about the current climate of biblical counseling and the local church's need to respond proactively to the need of their people and realizing this a gospel issue, and therefore, a discipling issue. 

In this episode, one of the hosts', Mike Van Dyke, reveals who will be co-hosting with him to provide a weekly podcast to edify the local church in biblical counseling and discipleship. Speak The Truth will consist of three host; Mike & Shauna Van Dyke, founders of Truth Renewed Ministries, a biblical counseling ministry. And they'll be joined with co-host, Jeremy Lelek, President of Association of Biblical counselors and Metroplex Counseling. In this trailer, Mike shares what the nature of the podcast will be, and encourages the local church to stay tuned as they begin to bring weekly podcast for the edification of the local church. 

This is a show intro/outro, please stay tuned for more to come. Our regular hosts will be Mike Van Dyke, Shauna Van Dyke, Founders of Truth Renewed Ministries, and Jeremy Lelek, President and Founder of Association of Biblical Counselors.