Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ (Equipping Biblical Counselors), by Robert W. Kellemen
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Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ (Equipping Biblical Counselors), by Robert W. Kellemen
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How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community.
Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling:
- Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.”
- Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.”
- Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven.”
- Guiding: “It’s Supernatural to Mature.”
These four compass points combine to equip readers to develop twenty-two ministry relational competencies—the “how to” of caring like Christ. This book serves as a practical training manual that can be used for lab and small group interaction.
Gospel Conversations is the second volume in The Equipping Biblical Counselors Series, a comprehensive relational training curriculum for the local church that provides a model for equipping God’s people to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth. This two-volume series weaves together comprehensive biblical insight with compassionate Christian engagement.
Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ (Equipping Biblical Counselors), by Robert W. Kellemen- Amazon Sales Rank: #297861 in Books
- Brand: Kellemen, Robert W.
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Released on: 2015-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.13" h x 1.06" w x 7.36" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Review Gospel Conversations is just what pastors, local church leaders, and compassionate laywomen and men need as we serve and minister to those God has placed around us. We come in contact with people who are suffering and struggling each and every day. Gospel Conversations will equip us all to better speak both truth and love in a way that is winsome and wise. -- Steve Viars, , Senior Pastor, Faith Church, Lafayette, IN; author, Putting Your Past in Its PlaceI’m not a counselor” is an all too common and erroneous statement. We are all counselors. Some of us counsel from behind our steering wheel or from our couch while watching our favorite sport. We offer counsel of some kind every day. The issue is whether we are good counselors. More importantly, are we biblical counselors? Our counsel is only as good as it is biblical. Much of what fosters the thought that we are not counselors is our judgment that we don’t know how to talk to people about their particular trial or sinful habits. Bob Kellemen, in Gospel Conversations, provides the church with an invaluable resource to help people appreciate their fundamental role as a counselor. Not only that, it also offers the reader training in practical relational skills for becoming an equipped biblical counselor. -- Andrew Rogers, , Pastor of Soul Care, College Park ChurchI needed a practical guide for pastors, counselors, and laypeople to help them understand the dynamics of gospel-rich conversations with struggling Christians. Now I’ve found it! Both rich in theology and Scripture, and at the same time very practical, Bob Kellemen’s Gospel Conversations is a powerful tool for everyone who wants to think more carefully about how to help others. It skillfully equips God’s people to have heartfelt, empathic, engaging, Christlike, servant-hearted, thoughtful, and gospel-centered conversation. -- Dr. Deepak Reju, , President, Biblical Counseling Coalition; Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DCAs a pastor who strives to equip others in the church to do what is covered in Gospel Conversations, I was affirmed, enlightened, challenged, and encouraged by Bob’s winsome and relentless gospel focus revealed in this incredible work. I highly recommend Gospel Conversations for your library and as a field guide for your ministry. It displays the very best of Bob Kellemen---the instruction of a coach, the love of a pastor, and the wisdom of a teacher. -- Dr. Robert K. Cheong, , Pastor of Care, Sojourn Community Church, Louisville, KYI really appreciate Bob’s love of people and his desire to teach others how to be relationally wise with a goal of growth in Christ likeness. Gospel Conversations takes “one anothering” seriously and teaches us how to put into practice honest, in-depth, and grace-saturated relationships with others. In other words, truly biblical relationships. Thanks, Bob, for guiding us to be more relationally competent to counsel. Don’t just read Gospel Conversations---practice it, and your church can move from Sunday morning surface relationships to truly dealing with the realities of life on a fallen planet. -- Dr. Ernie Baker, , Professor of Biblical Counseling, the Master’s CollegeBob Kellemen is a master trainer of counselors and Gospel Conversations is a training masterpiece. Distilling thirty years of counseling training, this book is much more than a training manual. It is a treasury of wise biblical soul care. Bob’s approach to counseling is clear, comprehensive, compassionate, and compelling. I found his Four Dimensions of Counseling Equipping and the wealth of helpful self-counseling and other-counseling questions especially helpful. I plan to reread Gospel Conversations soon as I seek to improve my own counseling training at my church. I enthusiastically recommend it to everyone who aspires to counsel fruitfully and help others do the same. -- Pat Quinn, , Pastor of Counseling Ministries, University Reformed Church, East Lansing, MII am thankful for Bob Kellemen’s Gospel Conversations equipping manual, which has been carefully designed to apply practical principles of gospel-centered biblical counseling in a small-group setting. What is taught in this book is founded upon careful exposition of Scripture and is rooted in sound theology that has stood the test of time throughout church history. I also appreciate the way Gospel Conversations boils down the key points into “tweet-sized” statements, memorable word pictures (“climb into the coffin”), and lists that summarize the principles he is emphasizing. -- Jim Newheiser, , Pastor, Grace Bible Church; Executive Director, Institute for Biblical Counseling and DiscipleshipGospel Conversations is a gift to the counseling community at large. It is theologically rich, gospel-soaked, hope-filled, and practically presented. As a Christ-centered approach to counseling, it offers anyone interested in reaching the hearts of hurting people a solid opportunity to be equipped to do so. I highly recommend it to pastors, churches, educators, and missionaries as well as anyone wanting to be equipped or to equip others. I am grateful for the privilege to apply this in my church. -- Dr. Dwayne R. Bond, , Lead Pastor of Wellspring Church; CEO and Founder of Proximus GroupBob Kellemen has crafted a relational masterpiece with Gospel Conversations. It is an excellent resource for caring for the souls of hurting people. Bob emphasizes the need to equip by following Christ’s model of disciple making: training the whole person to be a thoroughly equipped biblical counselor. I have personally benefited from the soul-to-soul, relational counseling style put forth in this book. Truth balanced by love and compassion is the foundation on which Gospel Conversations is based. Rich with applied theology, this book will be required reading for our biblical counseling trainees. -- Julie Ganschow, , Founder, Reigning Grace Counseling CenterBob Kellemen’s book is a robust, relational, comprehensive training manual. While you can work through it on your own, this manual has much to offer in a group setting to grow all participants to be equipped to compassionately, biblically counsel for Christ. Even if you have been counseling for years, Gospel Conversations offers significant insights from the Scriptures about how to counsel that will help a veteran counsel in a more soul-to-soul manner in accordance with the Scriptures. I’ve been counseling for decades and am being greatly helped by Gospel Conversations. -- Ken Long, , Executive Pastor, Grace Fellowship Church, Florence, Kentucky
About the Author
Bob Kellemen, ThM, PhD, is the executive director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and the founder and CEO of RPM Ministries. Bob has pastored for over a dozen years and now serves as chair of the MA in Christian Counseling and Discipleship department at Capital Seminary (Maryland). He is the author of nine books, including Equipping Counselors for Your Church.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Gospel Conversations to Care Like Christ By Joshua Waulk Dr. Robert Kellemen, Chair of the Biblical Counseling and Discipleship Department at Crossroads Bible College, is the author of Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ. Published by Zondervan, Gospel Conversations is part of the Equipping Biblical Counselors Series, and is the follow up to Kellemen's previous book, also from Zondervan, Gospel Centered Counseling: How Christ Changes Lives (you can read my recommendation of that book HERE).As part of the Equipping Series, Gospel Conversations is concerned with providing biblical counselors with the skills they need to use the gospel in the context of soul care for teaching others how to resist temptation and respond to suffering with love for God and one another (p.15). Kellemen wrote that "Gospel Conversations provides an intensive, relational, hands-on equipping manual" designed to develop in the counselor "twenty-one biblical counseling relational skills" to care like Christ (p.15).Kellemen succeeds in meeting his stated purposes for Gospel Conversations by providing twelve in-depth chapters and helpful appendices that unpack the one thing he asks his reader to not forget throughout the book:We learn to become competent biblical counselors by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real and raw community (p.17).In keeping with the spirit of Kellemen's other works, Gospel Conversations is not merely a theoretical treatment of the critically important task of providing biblical soul care. It is a hands-on, practical teaching tool designed to equip the body of Christ for "face-to-face gospel ministry where we speak the truth in love to one another" (p.17). With extensive follow up questions designed for small group or individual application, Gospel Conversations has the biblical counselor's growth and maturity in full view.The strength of Gospel Conversations is of course found in its gospel-centeredness, but the reader also benefits greatly from Kellemen's writing style and experience as a teacher. The book is accessible to most readers, yet appropriate for any setting in which training for biblical counseling is occurring. The net result, then, of a thorough reading of Gospel Conversations is a biblical counselor who is better prepared to care like Christ."Christ's vision for the church involves the whole body sharing Scripture and soul in gospel conversations where we help one another to become more like Christ as we endure suffering as overcomers and battle and defeat sin as more than conquerors." Dr. Robert Kellemen (p.354)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Anyone who delves into the depths of this volume will be challenged, experience growth and be better equipped By L. Eischen “…numerous studies indicate that pastors, even after graduation from seminary, feel inadequately prepared for the task of pastoral counseling.”Gospel Conversations is not for the light reader. It is almost four hundred pages of in-depth teaching that will require focus and a steady determination to process the information to completion.“We learn to be effective biblical counselors through face – to – face gospel ministry where we learn to speak the truth in love to one another.”Dr. Kellemen begins by defining the foundations of Biblical Counseling while emphasizing the duty and qualifications of what it means to be a Biblical Counselor in the first of five sections.“Typically, the first thing I do is pray that I will listen well and wisely out of a heart of love and a mind filled with gospel truth.”From there, he moves on to plumb extensively the process of Biblical Counseling. Not just for the counselee but for the counselor as well.Each chapter ends with a questions and answers section for the counselor called, ‘Maturing As A Biblical Counselor’ and ‘Counseling Others.’Dr. Kellemen offers ‘tweet sized’ summaries of each chapter distinguishing his work from those of era’s gone by.“In every aspect of biblical counseling by sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding, Christ’s gospel of grace is central.”Gospel Conversations includes a substantial APPENDIXES section to support and place into practice the outworking of Dr. Kellemen’s guidance and instruction.“The heart of healing involves journeying with people back to the heart of God.”I would add a caveat or two.If the reader is a young Christian or a novice to Biblical Counseling I would recommend they read this volume along with a mature Christian or seasoned Biblical Counselor.I’ll give you an example of something I sought others to help me flesh out as I was reading and I’d consider myself no longer a young Christian but not yet a seasoned Biblical Counselor either.On page 144, Dr. Kellemen recites a story regarding a woman named Octavia Albert in which he referred to her as ‘Jesus with skin on’. I found this phraseology somewhat confusing so I sought wise counselors and asked them about it.I would learn that in ‘Christianese’ this phrase means, “To be the presence of Jesus to someone who is going through something painful.”The desire to want to comfort another is understandable, however, Biblically we are not called to BE Jesus or HIS presence to others but rather we are called to point others TO Jesus.Jesus had His skin on when He came as God-Man and Savior. We are called to be Christ-LIKE, not Christ, since we are mere humans. The distinction is pivotal for those who may be like me and come from a background of theological hodgepodge and need to wrestle through doctrinal considerations.This is just one example of many you might ponder within this volume of work.With that said, Dr. Kellemen does go on to share The Confessional Statement of The Biblical Counseling Coalition on page 183 in which it makes clear;“We point people to a person, Jesus our Redeemer, and not to a program, theory or experience.”There are areas discussed that even the most seasoned counselor or mature Christian may need to probe but certainly for the novice.Anyone who delves into the depths of this volume will be challenged, experience growth and be better equipped for Gospel Conversations.“In other words, biblical counseling, gospel conversations, soul care, and spiritual direction – whatever label we give it – is not a side ministry done by one or a few. Speaking gospel truth in love, sharing Scripture and soul, biblical counseling is the one – another ministry calling of the body of Christ.”Disclosure: This book was provided by Zondervan and Cross Focused Reviews in exchange for my review.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Provides a paradigm for speaking the truth in love. By Steven J. Dresen Jr. I was excited to get the opportunity to read and review Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ by Robert Kellemen. I would like to clarify that this book isn’t just for pastors at its heart biblical counseling is discipleship which is the responsibility of every maturing believer. With that being said I am grateful for the large number of resources available in the area of biblical counseling.The book contains twelve chapters which are divided up over five sections. One of the most useful aspects of this book is that it can be used individually for self-directed training or in a more structured group setting. This is significant as those in smaller churches and communities need to have the option of being self-directed in their training and this book allows for that flexibility. Like biblical counseling itself what you get out of the book will depend upon what you put into it. Each chapter has a scriptural background which is to be read, meditated upon, and studied. The first section lays the foundations for biblical counseling. The following sections elaborate on what Kelleman considers to be the compass points of biblical counseling, sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.At the beginning of chapter one a common attitude found especially among pastors is challenged. Those in ministry can often develop an attitude said or unsaid that we just deliver the package/mail/message of God’s word and as long is we deliver it how we deliver it doesn’t matter. The character in which we communicate the truth does matter. Kelleman puts it well when he says, “If my character does not increasingly reflect the Christlike relational love of a brother, mother, father, child, and mentor, then I need to “switch chairs.” I need to become the counselee, the disciple (45). This guides the focus of every chapter growing in or putting on the Christlike character of a counselor while also internalizing it as well.This is a good resource for one starting out in biblical counseling, as noted there is flexibility in how it is used. The additional resources in the appendices help make this book useful for the implementation of biblical counseling ministry throughout the church. I heartily agree with Kelleman’s hope that readers would, “Catch and cast the vision of every member being a one-another minister who speaks the gospel truth in love (354).”A special thanks go to Zondervan for providing a free review copy.
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