Down from the Mountaintop!

Down from the mountaintop of Fairview Baptist Bible College.
Great week of class.  I was especially encouraged today and last night listening to the students talk about how they want to make disciples and help their churches make disciples.

We had lunch at Caleb & Charity Gibbs’ house in Montego Bay today.  It is a great way to end the week.

I found a great resource to share with the students in the book Biblical Counseling and the Church: God’s Care through God’s People.  There is a chapter on starting a Bilblical Counseling in a small church (under 100 people).
Randy Patten writes about 4 passage that should motivate disciple-making/Biblical counseling in any church.  These 4 passages are:.

• Matthew 28:18-20:  We are empowered and commanded to make disciples.
• Ephesians 4:11-14:  God has provided pastors to equip people to make disciples.
• Colossians 1:28-29:  With Christ’s power, we need to proclaim Christ so people will grow into the image of Christ.
• 2 Timothy 2:2:  Pastors are to training pastors who will train pastors.

I am thankful for the opportunity to teach these and other Biblical truth at FBBC.

I am also thankful that I am at a church that believes and observes these truths.