Person – dead or living in relation to his ultimate environment
人——死亡或活着与他的最终环境相关
Life’s most important relationship.生命中最重要的关系。
What must people know in order to deal with life’s problems?
为解决生活中的问题,人应该知道什么?
More correctly, who must people know? 更准确的说,人必须知道谁?
What is the most important relationship in a person’s life?
在一个人的生命中什么才是最重要的关系?
How does that relate to Christian counseling?这与基督徒辅导有什么关系?
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Assertion:申明:
The Lord Jesus Christ is central to all Christian life and living and thus must be central toChristian counseling.
主耶稣基督是所有基督徒生命、生活的中心,因此也必须是基督徒辅导的中心。
Many, many texts in the New Testament teach this in varying ways. I am going to focus on this one in Colossians as we think about the centrality of Christ for Christian counseling.
COLOSSIANS 1:24-2:15 presents Jesus Christ to us as: 西 1:24:-2:15 向我们呈现的耶稣基督:
The Key to Christian Maturity (v.24-29) 基督徒成熟的关键(24-29 节)
Through Christ-centered counseling, people will be brought to greater maturity.
通过以基督为中心的辅导,可以使人更成熟。
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
Paul is an example for us. He models what it means to suffer (v.24) and to serve (v.25).
保罗是我们的榜样。他向我们展示了受苦意味着什么(24 节)、服事意味着什么(25 节)。
The suffering and serving is aimed at making God’s Word more fully known. This has two aspects that are important for us. We are to spread the Word to more people. We are to be sure that people know more of what the Word says.
Christ indwells His church. The people of God are the new temple. This was a mystery to the Old Testament saints. We, you and I, are the living stones becoming the dwelling place of God. Each person you deal with is either a possible future living stone through conversion or is presently part of that habitation.
Why does this matter? Because it is the core of our hope. At the core of Biblical counseling is not just coping skills. It is teaching your counselee to live in the present mess in view of our future glory. This is part of the meaning of life. This is not merely an escape into a vague, illusionary luminous light of a dimly understood future existence. It is the brilliant, presently illuminating
Do you see the goal that is established for Christian ministry including counseling? Our goal is to present everyone mature in Christ. So this is an important question for you. Is your counseling working to present people mature in Christ?
Biblical counseling in the market place, in the professional setting, will seek to be a gateway, a doorway that opens God’s kingdom for unbelieving people to become “in Christ”. Then they have started on the journey to maturity.
Biblical counseling in the church, in the pastoral setting, will seek to helppeople become who God has said they are. It is working to Christian maturity. In China, this is often expressed in terms of Christian wholeness.
God does not divorce the means from the end. If this is our goal, then there is a God-ordained means to that goal. It is word ministry. It is speaking ministry. It is warning and teaching. It is done with spiritual wisdom. It is truth spoken in love. 11Foundations of Biblical Counseling
But God also establishes the content of speaking – “Him we proclaim.” Christ is at the center of what we say. We have insights. We have principles. We have commands. We have who we are and what we are to do. But the ultimate message and goal in all Christian ministry is to bring people into a loving and living relationship with Christ. We are bringing people to Christ.
Now, I want to draw a line for us. Christian counseling that is merely helping people cope with the hardships of life without connecting people to Christ is doing mercy ministry. It is OK. It is like handing out clothes or giving a meal to the homeless. It is a point of contact. But if that is all we are doing, then we are at best merely providing a social service that alleviates mercy. But it is not Christian ministry.
We are struggling in the hard work of glorifying God through our ministry.God is working in and through us to strengthen and sustain us in that struggle.
我们通过此事工努力工作来荣耀上帝。在这争战中,上帝在我们里面并藉着我们来坚固、保守我们。
Through Christ-centered counseling, people will be brought to greater maturity.
通过以基督为中心的辅导,人们将会更加成熟。
The Center of Christian Knowledge (v.1-5) 基督徒知识的中心 (第 1-5 节)
Through Christian counseling’s use of the truths of Christ’s person and work, people will be able to understand true wisdom and reject false wisdoms.
通过基督徒辅导在属基督的人和事上对真理的应用,人们能够明白真智慧、弃绝假知识。
1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 5 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Here is how that struggle worked out with Paul – he was involved with people inface-to-face ministry and in prayer.
这里,在保罗身上看出他是何等的尽心竭力——在面对面的侍奉与祷告当中与这些人保持联系。
A Glorious Person 一个满有荣耀的人(第 2-3 节) (v.2-3)
He is working to bring about a full and practical knowledge of Christ so that they are encouraged, unified and confident in the troubles surrounding them.
他的事工是把基督那全备、可行的知识带来,这样他们就可以在困苦的环境中被激励、合一、充满信心。
A Dangerous Problem 一个充满危险的问题(第 4 节) (v.4)
But there are people who will try to persuade them differently. I want to pause hereand think about this a bit:
但是有人用不同的意见来劝说他们。在这里我想暂停一下来思考这个问题:
There are people who attempt to argue against the centrality of Christ inall things, particularly in Christian meaning, ministry and maturity.
有人试图反对基督在一切事上,特别是在基督徒的意义、事工及成熟上的中心性。
These people present persuasive arguments for their case. The argumentsmay be:
这些人为他们的理由陈述了很有说服力的论据。这些论据可能是:
Philosophi cal Argued from a world view that challenges the truth of the Bible Scientific Materialistic arguments using scientific data. In the counseling field this is often done using a medical model. Religious Arguments that use other texts of Scripture or theological constructs to counter the truth of Christ’s centrality Narratives Arguments from people’s stories that put you in a position to be arguing against the experience of people. Rhetorical Arguments using cleverly constructed logic to counter clearly stated truths.
These arguments are deceptive and will attempt to delude (deceive, cheat, mislead, dupe, con) God’s people.
这些论点是很有迷惑性的,企图迷惑(蒙蔽、欺骗、误导、诓骗、欺诈)上帝的子 民。
A Settled People 一群坚固的人们(第 5 节) (v.5)
We must rejoice in and affirm when:我们要欢喜并肯定当:
People are well instructed in the truths of the Scriptures;人们在圣经真理中得到很好的教导。
People believe firmly and immovably in the truths of the Scriptures.
人们在圣经的真理中信仰坚固、信心稳固。
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Through Christian counseling’s use of the truths of Christ’s person and work, people will be able to understand true wisdom and reject false wisdoms.
通过基督徒辅导在属基督的人和事上对真理的应用,人们能够明白真智慧、弃绝假知识。
The Object of Christian Faith (v.6-7)基督徒信心的目标 (6-7 节)
Through Christian counseling, people will be taught to believe in Christ in an obeyingway so as to be full of gratitude.
通过基督徒辅导,人们学会以顺服的方式在基督中信靠,这样就会充满感恩。
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
We received the Lord Jesus Christ by faith in what the Bible says.
我们凭借圣经中所说的信心接受主耶稣.
How We Continue 怎样继续
On a daily basis, in every area of our lives, we are to live by faith in what the Bible says.
每天,在我们生活的每一个领域,凭借圣经中所说的信心生活.
How We Succeed 怎样成功
The Bible, for our salvation and our transformation, highlights faith in Christ and obedience to Christ.
为了我们的救恩和改变,圣经强调在基督里的信心及对基督的顺服。
Through Christian counseling, people will be taught to believe in Christ in an obeying way so as to be full of gratitude.
通过基督徒辅导,人们学会以顺服的方式在基督中信靠,这样就会充满感恩
The Provider of Christian Reality (v.8-15)基督徒现实的供应者(8-15 节)
Why is this so? Because Christ is the one who brings us all that it means to be Christians.
为什么会这样呢?因为基督就是把所有成为基督徒的方法带给我们的那位。
Through Christian counseling, people will come to live according to who they are in Christ and what Christ has done for them.
通过基督徒辅导,人们将按照他们在基督中的样式以及基督为他们所作的去生活。
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
We are in danger if we accept false substitutes that are not accord with Christ. He is he criteria. He is the standard by which all religious systems, ideas, philosophies, psychologies, sciences and cultures are to be measured. In counseling people, our models and methods must all be measured against the person and work of Christ if it is going to be truly Christian.
Accept Christ’s Description of You (v.9-10)接受基督对你的描述(9-10 节)
So, we are to help people accept and live out their identity in Christ. The Spirit through the Word tells us who we are. He tells us what has been done for us, in us and will be completed in us over our lives. Our old selves and the world system tries to give us a different identity.
For example, we should help people who struggle with afflictions not to “be” their affliction. Help people to affirm, “I have bi-polar, not I am bi-polar.” Teach them to say, “ I am one of God’s children who in this world with all its fallenness and curse, struggle with ”. We do not say, “I am migraine.” This reminds us that who we are is to be lived out even when we struggle with issues.
例如,我们应该帮助那些与苦难争战而对他们来说却“不是”苦难的人。要帮助他 们承认:“我有两级倾向,但我不是两级倾向的人”(注:bipolar【精神病学】 (情感)两极性的,躁狂和抑郁状态交替的)。教会他们去说:“我是上帝的孩子,在 充斥堕落、咒诅的世界上与争战”。我们不要说:“我患有偏头痛。”这样, 当我们与这些问题争战的时候就会提醒我们要活出我们自己原本的样式(who we are)。
Affirm Christ’s Work for You (v.11-15)确信基督为你所做的工(11-15 节)
We are to help people believe in what Christ has done for them and is doing in them. At no point can the issue they are struggling with be used to deny either the saving or transforming work the Spirit is doing in their lives through the Word of God.
Through Christian counseling, people will come to live according to who they are in Christ and what Christ has done for them.
通过基督徒辅导,人们将按照他们在基督中的样式以及基督为他们所作的去生活。
Think about this 想一想
How this affects a Christian counselor working with an unbeliever.这对一个基督徒辅导非信徒会产生怎么的影响.
The reality the Bible describes is simply true . The universe, the world, people are as the Bible says they are, whether they believe it or not. This is a great strength for Christian counselors. We can lean across to people and actually speak truth in love. So do you?
How this redefines what we are trying to accomplish对我们所努力完成的工作应如何重新定义/解释?
Interpret a person’s world 了解这个人的世界
Install faith, that is, an obeying belief 建立信心,即顺服的信靠
Develop Christ-like maturity 长成基督的身量
Warn against false ideas and practices 防备虚假的思想传统
This humbles us as we realize several important ideas:对下面几点的认识会使我们虚己:
There is no Christian triumphalism. We are not pretending that in this life we have solution to every issue of life. We do not (and no one does) have a full and final solution in this life. We simply have to learn to live pleasing to God even when our situation cannot be changed.
Christian counseling is about a Person. Yes, there are practical modalities and methods to help people be pleasing to God in the midst of the mess. But we are to counsel in reference to Christ – to whether people believe and bow to the Lord.
We do offer real hope and real help. The Bible tells us that we are to live now in view of heaven, of the new creation that has begun at the resurrection of Christ and will be brought to fullness in the new heavens and new earth. Then, all struggle, all sorrow, all sickness, all affliction, all fallenness, all that we suffer under in this life will be brought to an end. Then, o then, will Christ be all and in all for the glory of God the Father。
我们的的确确提供了一个真正的希望与帮助。圣经告诉我们要用天国的眼光、以基督复活所形成的新人的身份活在当下,并在将来的新天新地中得以完全。如此,在 今世中我们所有的争战、忧伤、疾病、患难、堕落,以及所有我们所遭受的将会结 束。这样,基督将是万有又在万有之中,使父上帝得荣耀。 18Foundations of Biblical Counseling 圣经辅导基础 | 错误!使用“开始”选项卡将 Title 应用于要在此处显示的文字。
THE SCRIPTURE AND BIBLICAL COUNSELING
圣经与圣经辅导 Points of connection 连接点
A personal story: My father’s death and Romans 8:28.个人故事:父亲的死与罗 8:28.
A living metaphor: the Bible as sustaining and strengthening bread.
活隐喻:作为持续不断添加力量的食物,圣经.
Two important understandings.两个重要认知.
Our understanding of the Christian ministry.对基督徒侍奉的认知.
1 PETER 4:10-11:彼前 4:10-11 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Foundations of Biblical Counseling ,Becoming an Instrument of Hope and Help
圣经辅导基础 ,成为传递希望与给予帮助的使者
Presentations 目录
1.COUNSELING THAT IS CHRISTIAN
辅导者—基督徒
2.CHRIST AND BIBLICAL COUNSELING
基督与圣经辅导
3.THE SCRIPTURE AND BIBLICAL COUNSELING
圣经与圣经辅导
4.THE COUNSELOR AND BIBLICAL COUNSELING
辅导者与圣经辅导
5.THE TRANSFORMING PURPOSES OF BIBLICAL COUNSELING
圣经辅导的改变目标
6.ENGAGING PEOPLE
与人接触
7.ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS
提出好问题
8.HOPE AND HELP FOR ALL
传递希望、给予帮助
Strategy and Structure 策略与结构
Each session will be organized according to the following outline
每一讲座内容都按以下大纲提要组织:
A challenging case study 一挑战性的案例分析
A foundation stone summary 一根源性的总结
A teaching on the element 一关于原理方面的教导
An analogy connected to Scripture 一与经文相关的类比
A closing call and challenge 一结束语及难题
1Foundations of Biblical Counseling 圣经辅导基础
COUNSELING THAT IS CHRISTIAN辅导者—基督徒
Introduction 引言 My Hope 我的期望
That we move from topics to calling. 我们把话题由呼召转到.
To love people as Christ has loved us. 像基督爱我们一样地去爱别人.
To live out the wisdom we learn from Christ our wisdom. 出从基督那里来的智慧.
To serve Biblically those who struggle. 用圣经知识去帮助那些挣扎的人.
Common Points of Contact 接触的一般要点
We are all concerned to help people. 我们都乐意帮助别人.
We are all dealing with great troubles and troubled people. 我们都在与各种苦恼及苦恼地人打交道.
We are all living in the same world, God’s world, full of.
我们都生活在同一个世界上,上帝的世界,满有.
We are all serving like Christ – 我们都向基督一样的服事
ISAIAH 61:1-3 1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
A wide expression and experience of people’s troubles 一个关于人苦恼的全面表达与经历.
A rich and deep addressing of those needs 一个对于需求的博大而又深刻的求索.
A person, the Lord Jesus, who is Himself the transforming answer to ourdeepest needs
一个人,就是主耶稣,祂自己对我们最深处的需求作了变相地回答.
We are together giving hope and help in this world with these people.
我们一起给予希望,去帮助那些生活在这世上的人们.
We all have stories.我们每人都有故事.
The prisoner in Germany who.在德国的囚犯.
The juvenile sexual predator who.青少年性侵害者.
Two Purposes in Redemption. 挽救的两个目标.
The purpose of history .历史目标.
God would display His glory in saving and transforming His people through HisSon bringing His sovereign rule overall the universe
上帝会在在拯救、改变祂的子民中彰显祂的荣耀,并藉着祂的儿子统管宇宙。
The purpose of redemption 救赎目标
God would save His people f rom their sins bringing them under the Lordship of His Son and transforming their lives
上帝把祂的子民从罪中拯救出来,归在祂儿子名下,改变他们的生命。
The purpose of God’s people 上帝子民的目标.
To grow in love for God and love for neighbor在爱上帝与爱邻舍中长进.
3Foundations of Biblical Counseling 圣经辅导基础.
To expand God’s kingdom through the gospel proclamation and formation of localchurches.
通过大使命与当地教会群系扩大上帝的国度.
To exemplify God’s love and mercy to the hurting through practical words and deeds of love.
用实际的富有爱心地言行向受伤的人们彰显上帝的慈爱、怜悯.
Counseling functions with in all of these purposes.辅导在这些目标中的功能
We need God’s Word and counsel to tell us who we are and what is wrong
我们需要上帝的话咨询并告诉我们是谁、我们哪里出了问题。
God has ordained that His purposes are largely accomplished through His Word
上帝已经命定祂的旨意会很大程度上通过祂的话(道)来实现.
God’s people are transformed by the ministry of the Word in their lives
上帝的子民通过传道(福音事工)来改变他们的生命.
Unbelievers are ministered to by Christians who seek to give hope and help in the midst of fallenness and sinfulness.
不信者生活在堕落与罪孽当中,基督徒就是要努力辅导他们,给予他们希望与帮助。
Christian counseling then has two primary spheres of work: 这样基督徒辅导有两个基本工作范围:
To those who do not believe – mercy and gospel 对于那些不信者——怜悯加福音.
To those who do believe – transformation and gospel 对于信者——改变加福音.
A Primary Focus 主焦点
The focus of my talks will be on the distinctive foundations and key elements of a Counseling that is Biblical. I am not here and I do not want to be heard through the lens of the Jay Adams. I counsel according to the Bible, not according to Dr. Adams.
我讨论的焦点将集中在辅导特有的基础与关键因素,那就是依照圣经。在这里我不讲述 Jay Adams 的课程。我是根据圣经而不是 Dr. Adams 进行辅导。
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. (Romans 15:13, ESV)
Essential Questions for Foundation Building 根基建立的基本问题
When we are preparing to build a building.我们什么时候准备修建一建筑?
What are we doing?我们在做什么?
Are we agreed on what counseling is as Christians?
在“作为基督徒,什么是辅导”的问题上我们是否能达成一致?
Counseling is:辅导是:
Engaging people in an environment of Christian love.使人融入到充满基督徒爱心的环境氛围之中。
Coming to know people and the person so as to have a Biblically accurate understanding of the problems.
了解人们,从圣经的角度对问题有一个精确的理解。
Speaking God’s agenda for change trusting in God’s providences, power and Person to transform the person.
诉说上帝在改变人并使人信靠祂的眷顾、大能以及位格改变人格中的计划。
Laying out wise steps of action that will help the person to be pleasing tothe Lord.
展示智慧地行为步骤,帮助人讨主的喜悦。
What should people to be like?人应该是什么样子的?What is the change agenda we bring to people?
我们带给人们的改变计划是怎样的?
What is “normal”?什么是“正常”?
The Scripture defines and describes what people ought to be like
圣经经文定义、描述的人是什么样子的?
The Lord Jesus modeled for us how to live pleasing to God
在怎样生活去讨 神的喜悦的问题上,主耶稣为我们做了榜样。
Are the commands of the Bible relevant for counseling?圣经的诫命与辅导有关系吗?
Are the principles of the Bible relevant for counseling?圣经原则与辅导有关系吗?
Why do people do what they do? 为什么人们做他们该做的事?
How do we know what drives people? 我们怎么知道是什么驱使着人们?
What makes people feel and do what they do? 是什么让人们觉得做并要做该做的事?
5Foundations of Biblical Counseling 圣经辅导基础
How does the Bible speak to people’s thoughts and motivations?
圣经中是怎么说人 的意念与动机的?
How does lasting change take place? 持续改变是怎么发生的?
Do we aim for lasting change? 我们是否以持续改变为目标?
When is change not our goal? 在什么时候我们的目标不是改变?
How can I be an instrument of that change? 我怎样才能成为改变的器皿?
God-wise: Knowing God 上帝的智慧:认识上帝
The most important fact about people is their relationship to God
关于人的最重要的事实:与上帝的关系
Knowing God’s Word 认识上帝的话(道)
Walking with God personally 独自与 神同行
Bible-wise: Knowing God’s Word 圣经的智慧:认识上帝的话(道)
The Word of God interprets situations, people and problems accurately
神的道精确地解释了处境、人及众多的问题。
The Word of God is the means by which God transforms people神的道是 神改变人的手段。
People-wise: Knowing people 人的智慧:认识人
Key is becoming case wise – knowing both the big picture and the personalparticulars
关键是有案例的智慧——既从大处着眼又了解个人细节。
Their situations, their struggles, their sins, their solutions他们的处境、挣扎、罪孽、措施。
Think about this 想想看
Concentric circle diagram 同心圆图
God is man’senvironment上帝是人的外部环境
Spiritually embattled四面楚歌的灵性
Socially embedded社会嵌入
Physically embodied肉体呈现
Person – dead or livingin relation to hisultimate environment
人——死亡或活着与他的最终环境相关
Biblical counseling addresses the whole complexity of the human situation. It sees man’smost essential need and most necessary relationship is to God. But it also offers hopeand help for all.
