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.

Down from the mountain top!

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 was 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.

Jamaica: Inconsistent & Consistent

I have finished up 3 days of teaching at Fairview Baptist Bible College.
Two more days of classes.  Today (Thursday) is a full day of teaching.
8:00 am to 12:45 pm and then 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

For those who don't know I am teaching a course entitled Biblical Counseling in the Local Church.
It has been a good work in class.
I would have liked to do more updating but the internet connection has been inconsistent.

One prayer request I shared with some people before coming down was pray that the class material would be relevant to the Jamaican students and churches.
From the student feedback that prayer seems to have been answered.

The heavy rain every afternoon has been very consistent.


One of the verses we have been using throughout the week has been Matthew 28:18-20.