THE TRANSFORMING PURPOSES OF BIBLICAL COUNSELING 圣经辅导的改变目标
Points of connection 连接点
A personal story: Sara’s story 个人故事:Sara 的故事
A living metaphor: We are like trees, bearing fruit.活隐喻:我们像结果子的树,
What is God doing in people’s lives? 上帝在人的生活中做什么?
Why is Job suffering? 约伯为何受苦?
Why does David spend so many years running from Saul? 大卫为何数年躲避扫罗追捕?
Why does Jesus live a fully human life for 33 years and then die like a criminal?
耶稣为何在世为人只有 33 年,最后却如罪犯般死去?
Our Primary Aim 我们的最初目标
To be pleasing to God in all things so as to bring real hope and help to people for God’s glory. Here is the trajectory of God’s agenda.
为了上帝的荣耀,在万事上讨 神喜悦,我们要把真正的希望与帮助带给人们。下面是 神计划的轨迹:
2 Corinthians 5:9 – We make our aim to be pleasing to God.
林后 5:9—我们立了志向,要得主的喜悦。
Hebrews 11:6 – Without faith, it is impossible to please God. 来 11:6—人非有信就不能得 神的喜悦。
Ephesians 5:10 – We are constantly trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
弗 5:10—总要察验何为主所喜悦的事。
Colossians 1:9-12 – Pray (and counsel) that you may know God’s will so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord to please Him in all aspects.
西 1:9-12—满心知道 神的旨意,好叫你们行事为人对得起主,凡事蒙他喜悦。
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9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Help others to fully know God’s will; So that they will live in a way that is worthy; Pleasing God, bearing fruit, and knowing God better. Help others to joyfully and patiently endure With God’s kind of strength and power Because of all that God has done in saving then.
Some simple models to help the counselor and the counselee understand life Biblically. While they are neither exhaustive nor comprehensive, they are intended to explain in such a way that you can Scripturally interpret what is going on.
These models are developed from the root, tree and fruit metaphors that are often used in the Scriptures. I am indebted to Dave Powlison and Paul Tripp for the basic ideas.
这些模型中根、树及果子,其隐喻都在圣经中用到。这些观点我是受 Dave Powlison 和 Paul Tripp 的启发得到的。
Primary Scriptures 基要经文
Jeremiah 17:5-10 and Psalm 1 耶 17:5-10、诗 1
5 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Here is the simple representation of people as root and fruit. There is the root, the source or cause of all that is displeasing to God.
在这里,根与果子是人简单的呈现。根,是不讨 神喜悦的来源或原因(译者有些 不解)。
Three tree model 三种树模型
Proverbs 4:23 箴 4:23
“23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.“
23 你要保守你心,胜过保守一切。(或作你要切切保守你心)因为一生的果效,是 由心发出。
Triangle – The good, sovereign and wise God 三角——良善、全能、智慧的 神
We do not live in a world governed by chance 我们生活的世界并不是偶然存在的
We do live in a world ordered by God 这个世界是 神支配的。
Circle – The situations of life 圆圈——生活的处境
This is the world in which we live including our body 我们生活的世界中包含着我们自己的肉体。
Heat – the difficulties, hardships, brokenness including afflictions
月亮——困苦、艰难、破碎中的痛苦
Dew – the good, blessings, common grace of God 水珠——上帝的良善、赐福及普遍恩典
Tree/Fruit- Our Response 树/果子——我们的回应
Response here is in our choices/actions and our emotions/affections Good tree and good fruit Thorn bush and bad fruit
这里的回应在于我们的选择/行为及情感。 好树与好果子 坏树与坏果子
Heart – Our Inner Person 心——我们内在的自我
The source, root, spring of our actions and emotions
我们行为、情感的源头
The heart “thinks” with words and images… 内心用语言、图像去“思考”.
The heart’s thinking is either pleasing to God or not,
心的思考要么讨 神喜悦,要么.
{{ We will go into more detail in a moment about the heart’s functions }}
{{我们稍后就心的功能作一详细论述}}
Cross – All of God’s work in Christ for us 十字架——上帝在基督里为我们所成就的一切
Not merely the death of Jesus on the cross – the whole gospel of His life, death, resurrection with how the Bible interprets and applies it. All of God’s provision for us, including the Bible, God’s people, the church, Shepherds (pastors)