How to Care Like Christ

RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar

Do you care deeply for people, but find it difficult to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ?

Are you ready to learn the art of Christ Care?

*Learn How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

*Learn How to Care Like Christ

*Learn How to Use the Bible Accurately, Powerfully, and Lovingly in Your Personal Relationships

A One-Day Seminar Presented by Dr. Bob Kellemen

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, and counselor. He’s the author of Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Learn Biblical Answers to Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

1. What is truth? Where do we find answers?
2. Who is God?
3. Who am I?
4. What went wrong? Why do I sin and suffer?
5. How do people change?
6. Where am I headed?
7. How can I help?

Be Equipped for One Another Ministry as a Spiritual Friend, Biblical Counselor, and Soul Physician:

*Learn how to understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.

*Learn how to diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong—why do we do the things we do?

*Learn how to prescribe God’s solutions effectively: Apply Christ’s answers for our daily life problems.

*Learn how to weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people—empathize with people.

*Learn how to give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people—encourage people as you relate God’s truth to daily life.

*Learn how to be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people—enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.

*Learn how to disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people—empower people to tap into Christ’s resurrection power.

Changing Lives Seminar Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-12:00 Morning Session with Two Breaks

How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth: Become a Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, and Culturally-Informed Soul Physician

Everyone talks about biblical counseling, but how do we make biblical counseling truly biblical? Learn how to use God’s Word accurately, powerfully, and lovingly. Be equipped to become an artful soul physician by developing a Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical model of people helping, counseling, and one another ministry that values and applies the sufficiency, supremacy, authority, and relevancy of Scripture to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

12:00-1:00 Lunch Fellowship Together

1:00-4:00 Afternoon Session with Two Breaks

How to Care Like Christ: Become an Empathizing, Encouraging, Enlightening, and Empowering Spiritual Friend

Everyone wants to “do biblical counseling” and to “be a spiritual friend,” but what does it actually “look like” in practice? Learn how to use God’s Word to empathize, encourage, enlighten, and empower others. Be equipped to become a skillful spiritual friend by developing the biblical soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding to care like Christ.

Contact Us:

To host or to attend an RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar contact us:

RPM Ministries
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
www.rpmministries.org, rpm.ministries@gmail.com

Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, and Culturally-Informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

How to Care Like Christ

Be Empowered to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people’s personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping so you can care like Christ?

Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible more wisely, powerfully, and lovingly?

Then attend the RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Select from two upcoming RPM Ministries How to Care Like Christ Seminars:

1. Saturday, October 10, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

Cost: $25 per person if registered by October 3. ($35 at the Door.) Your costs include a continental breakfast, a light lunch, the seminar notes, and the full-day seminar presentation by Dr. Kellemen.

To Register:

*Contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767.

*Or, download the online registration at: http://bit.ly/zJMvy

*Or, contact: secretary@gbcbowie.org

To Learn More:

Please visit: http://bit.ly/lX5PG

2. Saturday, October 31, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*Cost: $25 per person. Your costs include a continental breakfast, a light lunch, the seminar notes, and the full-day seminar presentation by Dr. Kellemen.

To Register:

*Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 and ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar.

*Or, email Paula Stevens-Lassiter at mtsinaidc@verizon.net

Enjoy Life Changing Seminars

Enjoy Life Changing Seminars

I know you are committed to being fully equipped to minister to God’s people for God’s glory.

I also realize that sometimes it is difficult to find a seminar that doesn’t feel like a waste of time, impractical, unbiblical, too academic, boring, or irrelevant.

That’s why I want to introduce you to five seminars that all share the same passion: to provide Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed ministry equipping so you can change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

Each of these seminars has been field-tested in churches, para-church organizations, and college and graduate school campuses. They are biblical, practical, user-friendly, and interesting.

You will enjoy engaging biblical teaching, creative PowerPoint presentations, stirring vignettes, life-changing interaction, moving personal applications, and relevant ministry implications.

After reading the following summaries, please contact us to discuss attending or hosting an RPM Ministries Equipping Seminar: rpm.ministries@gmail.com or 219-662-8138.

Changing Lives Seminar:
How to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people's personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping? Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible and Christian living principles more wisely, effectively, powerfully, and lovingly? Then attend a Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped to:

*Understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.
*Diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong--why do we do the things we do?
*Prescribe God's solutions (soul-u-tions) effectively--apply Christ's answers for our daily life issues.
*Weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people--empathize with people.
*Give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people--encourage people as you relate God's truth to their daily lives.
*Be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people--enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.
*Disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people--empower people to tap into Christ's resurrection power.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/o7TxX

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses Seminar:
How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

Have you experienced a loss and do you long to find God’s hope in your grief? Do you desire to minister God’s healing to your grieving friends? Then discover God’s healing for life’s losses.

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses equips you to apply eight scriptural stages in your response to life’s losses—helping you to find hope when you’re hurting. It also empowers you to minister healing hope to others so that they can face suffering face-to-face with God.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped to:

*Experience personal healing and biblical hope.
*Encounter God in the midst of your suffering.
*Empathize with hurting people more compassionately.
*Encourage suffering people more competently.
*Empower your congregation to become a “hospital for the hurting.”

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/uvRog

Sacred Friendships Seminar:
Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith

*Co-Presented by Bob Kellemen and Susan Ellis

Do you long to learn from godly women of the faith how to be a powerful spiritual friend? Far too often we build our models of ministry by ignoring half of the Christian world—women. Sacred Friendships gives voice to the voiceless by celebrating the legacy of Christian women, and by helping all Christians—men and women—to learn from their examples how to be powerful spiritual friends.

At the Seminar, Men and Women Will:

*Be empowered by the heroic sisters of the Spirit to be powerful spiritual friends.
*Be enriched by past wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters concerning how to nurture and enjoy godly living in the home.
*Be enlightened to apply proven ways to help people find healing hope in the midst of deep pain.
*Be enabled to minister more effectively in cross-cultural settings by uncovering the buried treasure of wisdom contained in the legacy of women soul care-givers and spiritual directors.
*Be encouraged to skillfully practice the historic soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.
*Be equipped to build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/XSAKB

Heroes of the Black Church Seminar:
Celebrating the Legacy of African American Christianity

Do you long to learn from African American heroes of the faith how God uses suffering to move His people to a place of healing hope? Dr. Kellemen equips Christians of all races to be empowered by the Heroes of the Black Church to minister God’s healing hope to one another.

At the Seminar, Christians of All Races Will:

*Be empowered by the founding fathers of the African American church about how to be a godly male leader.
*Be equipped by the heroic sisters of the spirit of the African American church to be a powerful female spiritual friend.
*Be enriched by past African American husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers concerning how to nurture and enjoy godly living in the home.
*Be enlightened to apply proven ways to help people find healing hope in the midst of deep pain by identifying with past African American believers.
*Be enabled to minister more effectively in cross-cultural settings by uncovering the buried treasure of wisdom contained in the legacy of African American soul care and spiritual direction.
*Be encouraged to skillfully practice the historic soul care arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.
*Be enthused to build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/10a08K

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency Seminar:
A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach

Do you long to relate and minister effectively in our culturally diverse society? Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency will equip you to develop four core biblical intercultural relational skills. Be empowered to relate like Christ.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped to Implement the TEAM Intercultural Relational Competencies of:

*T: Taking another person’s earthly perspective through empathy and culturally-informed listening.
*E: Engaging in bridge-building spiritual conversations through focusing on God’s eternal perspective.
*A: Abolishing barriers through forgiveness and reconciliation.
*M: Making intercultural peace through spiritual renewal.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/ZETIN

All Seminars Are Presented or Co-Presented
by Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, author, consultant, educator, pastor, and counselor. He’s the author of Beyond the Suffering, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Be Equipped to Change Lives

Be Equipped to Change Lives: How to Care Like Christ

I know you are committed to changing lives. I know you care deeply for people and want to care like Christ.

I also realize that sometimes it is difficult to find relevant resources that equip you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

That’s why I want to introduce you to five books that all share the same passion: to provide Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed ministry equipping to empower you to care like Christ.

Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction

Soul Physicians equips you to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! It empowers you to apply God’s Word to your own life so you grow in grace. It’s a comprehensive training manual for one another ministry and for growth in Christlikeness.

Its two built-in discussion guides—one for personal application and one for ministry implications—make Soul Physicians perfect for individual and group work.

Join the growing number of lay people, pastors, professional Christian counselors, and students who are using Soul Physicians as their twenty-first century manual for understanding people and ministering to them God’s way. Change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

*To read a boatload of testimonies about the power of Soul Physicians, please visit: http://bit.ly/1SszRo

*To read a sample chapter of Soul Physicians, please visit: http://bit.ly/3yNUGf

*To order your copy of Soul Physicians at 40% off, please visit: http://bit.ly/3WsKoX

Spiritual Friends: A Methodology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Friends equips you to relate Christ’s truth to human relationships—yours and others. It’s a biblically-relevant training manual and a relational practical workbook with thousands of illustrative interactions and hundreds of skill-building exercises.

Its built-in discussion guide—with role-plays, vignettes, life applications, and ministry implications—makes Spiritual Friends perfect for individual and group work.

Join the growing number of church small groups, church lay counseling training ministries, pastors, professional Christian counselors, and students who are using Spiritual Friends as their twenty-first century manual for people helping. Care like Christ.

*To read a boatload of testimonies about the power of Spiritual Friends, please visit: http://bit.ly/LvKul

*To read a sample chapter of Spiritual Friends, please visit: http://bit.ly/17vtyd

*To order your copy of Spiritual Friends at 40% off, please visit: http://bit.ly/JiOR5

Beyond the Suffering:
Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction

Do you long to learn from African American heroes of the faith how God uses suffering to move His people to a place of healing hope? Beyond the Suffering equips Christians of all races to be empowered by the heroes of Black Church to minister God’s healing hope to one another.

Its built-in discussion guide makes Beyond the Suffering ideal for celebrating the legacy of African American Christianity. Its amazing narratives are a gift to African Americans—validating their tremendous contribution to Christianity. Its powerful vignettes are a gift from African Americans—teaching all of us how to be powerful spiritual friends.

Join the growing number of individuals of all races, of churches of all races, of church small groups and Sunday School classes, of college and graduate school campuses, and of para-church groups using Beyond the Suffering as their twenty-first century manual for culturally-informed people helping. Build bridges of spiritual reconciliation.

*To read a boatload of testimonies, to read the Foreword by Dr. Tony Evans, to view the PowerPoint overview, and much more about Beyond the Suffering, please visit: http://bit.ly/XvsTu

*To read a sample chapter of Beyond the Suffering, please visit: http://bit.ly/MgQrB

*To order your copy of Beyond the Suffering at 40% off for just $9.99, please visit: http://bit.ly/WarAa

Sacred Friendships:
Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith

Do you long to learn from godly women of the faith how to be a powerful spiritual friend? Sacred Friendships equips men and women to be Christlike mentors, coaches, ministers, and people helpers.

Its built-in discussion guide makes Sacred Friendships ideal for celebrating the legacy of women heroes of the faith. Its amazing narratives are a gift to women—giving voice to the voiceless. Its powerful vignettes are a gift from women—teaching men and women how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another for Christ’s glory.

Join the growing number of men and women, churches, Sunday School classes, church small groups, college and graduate school campuses, and para-church groups using Sacred Friendships as their twenty-first century manual for compassionate people helping. Learn from the great cloud of female Christian witnesses.

*To read a boatload of testimonies about the power of Sacred Friendships, please visit: http://bit.ly/6frbF

*To read a sample chapter of Sacred Friendships, please visit: http://bit.ly/1S1haj

*To order your copy of Sacred Friendships at 40% off, please visit: http://bit.ly/MG1l5

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:
How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

Have you experienced a loss and do you long to find God’s hope in your grief? Do you desire to minister God’s healing to your grieving friends? Then discover God’s healing for life’s losses.

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses equips you to apply eight scriptural stages in your response to life’s losses—helping you to find hope when you’re hurting. It also empowers you to minister healing hope to others so that they can face suffering face-to-face with God.

Its two built-in grief guides—one for your grief journal and one for your grief journey—make God’s Healing for Life’s Losses perfect for individual and group grief work.

Join the growing number of lay people, pastors, professional Christian counselors, recovery groups, grief groups, church small groups, Sunday School classes, and college and graduate school students using God’s Healing for Life’s Losses as their twenty-first century manual for Christian grief recovery. Find hope when you’re hurting.

*To read Pastor Steve Viars’ Foreword to God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, please visit: http://bit.ly/155J4r

*God’s Healing for Life’s Losses will be released in 2010. A sample chapter will be posted at that time at www.rpmministries.org

*When God’s Healing for Life’s Losses is released, you will be able to order it online at sale pricing at: www.rpmministries.org

Stimulate Your Soul with the RPM Stimulus Package

We have “bundled” our first four books in three combinations to offer you additional savings and additional resources.

The Biblical Counselor’s Library

Together, Soul Physicians and Spiritual Friends offer a unique Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed approach to biblical counseling and spiritual formation.

Purchase Soul Physicians and Spiritual Friends together, and save more—45% off. To order them together, please visit: http://bit.ly/3WsKoX

The Voice for the Voiceless Library

Together, Beyond the Suffering and Sacred Friendships offer a rarely heard multi-cultural and feminine perspective on one another ministry.

Purchase Beyond the Suffering and Sacred Friendships together, and save more—45% off. To order them together, please visit: http://bit.ly/MG1l5

The Soul Care and Spiritual Direction Library

Together, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, and Sacred Friendships provide a Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed theology, methodology, and history of soul care and spiritual direction.

Purchase Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, and Sacred Friendships together, and save more—45% off. To order all four books together, please visit: http://bit.ly/JiOR5

Care Like Christ

Care Like Christ

I understand that you care deeply for people, but that you can find it frustrating to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ.

That’s why RPM Ministries offers Changing Lives Seminars to equip and empower you to use the Bible accurately, powerfully, and lovingly in your personal relationships.

Here’s the information you need to be equipped and empowered at three upcoming Changing Lives Seminars. I’d love to see you and connect in person.

Upcoming RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminars

1. When: Saturday, September 26, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Community Evangelical Free Church, 4501 Franklin St., Harrisburg, PA 17111.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: To register online please visit: http://bit.ly/P6mlX. Click here for more information: http://bit.ly/p8bjc. To talk to a real live person contact Pastor John Heater at 717-545-1354.

2. When: Saturday, October 10, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Learn more at: http://bit.ly/lX5PG. To register contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767.

3. When: Saturday, October 31, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 to register. Ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar. Visit the church website at: http://bit.ly/N35Cd.

Note: If your church, para-church group, ministry, or school would like to host an RPM Seminar or would like to have Dr. Kellemen present for you, please contact us at: rpm.ministries@gmail.com.

Note: For more information about the Changing Lives Seminar please visit: http://bit.ly/o7TxX.

Changing Lives Seminars

RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar

Do you care deeply for people, but find it difficult to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ?

Are you ready to learn the art of Christ Care?

*Learn How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

*Learn How to Care Like Christ

*Learn How to Use the Bible Accurately, Powerfully, and Lovingly in Your Personal Relationships

A One-Day Seminar Presented by Dr. Bob Kellemen

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, and counselor. He’s the author of Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Learn Biblical Answers to Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

1. What is truth? Where do we find answers?

2. Who is God?

3. Who am I?

4. What went wrong? Why do I sin and suffer?

5. How do people change?

6. Where am I headed?

7. How can I help?

Be Equipped for One Another Ministry
as a Spiritual Friend, Biblical Counselor, and Soul Physician:

*Learn how to understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.

*Learn how to diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong—why do we do the things we do?

*Learn how to prescribe God’s solutions effectively: Apply Christ’s answers for our daily life problems.

*Learn how to weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people—empathize with people.

*Learn how to give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people—encourage people as you relate God’s truth to daily life.

*Learn how to be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people—enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.

*Learn how to disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people—empower people to tap into Christ’s resurrection power.

Changing Lives Seminar Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-12:00 Morning Session with Two Breaks

How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth:
Become a Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate,
and Culturally-Informed Soul Physician

Everyone talks about biblical counseling, but how do we make biblical counseling truly biblical? Learn how to use God’s Word accurately, powerfully, and lovingly. Be equipped to become an artful soul physician by developing a Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical model of people helping, counseling, and one another ministry that values and applies the sufficiency, supremacy, authority, and relevancy of Scripture to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

12:00-1:00 Lunch Fellowship Together

1:00-4:00 Afternoon Session with Two Breaks

How to Care Like Christ:
Become an Empathizing, Encouraging, Enlightening,

and Empowering Spiritual Friend

Everyone wants to “do biblical counseling” and to “be a spiritual friend,” but what does it actually “look like” in practice? Learn how to use God’s Word to empathize, encourage, enlighten, and empower others. Be equipped to become a skillful spiritual friend by developing the biblical soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding to care like Christ.

Contact Us:

To host or to attend an RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar contact us:

RPM Ministries
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
www.rpmministries.org, rpm.ministries@gmail.com

Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, and Culturally-Informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

Be Equipped

Be Equipped to Change Lives with

Christ’s Changeless Truth

I understand that you care deeply for people, but that you can find it frustrating to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ.

That’s why I write, speak, and consult about Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling and spiritual formation that equips you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

Here’s the information you need to be equipped and empowered at upcoming seminars, conferences, and speaking engagements. I’d love to see you and meet you in person.

1. When: Wednesday, September 15, 9 AM to Noon

*Where: At the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference in Nashville.

*What: Pre-Conference Presentation: How to Develop a Theology and Methodology of Biblical Counseling

*Why: In one morning learn the seven truths that every spiritual friend, spiritual director, pastor, and biblical counselor must apply to change lives and care like Christ.

*How: Go here to register: http://bit.ly/povwo

2. When: Friday, September 18, 8:45-10:00 AM

*Where: At the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference in Nashville.

*What: Biblical Counseling Track Presentation: How to Practice Comprehensive Biblical Counseling: Dreaming a Dozen Dreams

*Why: In 75 minutes learn the dozen components that will change how Christians practice biblical counseling in the next generation.

*How: Go here to register: http://bit.ly/1TEbg

*How: Go here to sign up: http://bit.ly/RO9T0

3. When: Wednesday, September 23, 2:00-4:00 PM

*Where: Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, IL

*What: Panel Discussion: Embracing Minority Impact in Higher Education

*Why: Hear frank discussion about how and why Evangelical higher education can more effectively equip students of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities for biblical ministry.

*How: Contact us at rpm.ministries@gmail.com for more information.

4. When: Saturday, September 26, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Community Evangelical Free Church, 4501 Franklin St., Harrisburg, PA 17111.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: See costs, benefits, details, and register online at: http://bit.ly/P6mlX. For more information contact Pastor John Heater at 717-545-1354.

5. When: Saturday, October 10, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Learn more at: http://bit.ly/lX5PG. To register contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767.

6. When: Friday, October 23, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

*Where: North Park University and North Park Theological Seminary, 3225 West Foster Ave., Chicago, IL 60625, 773-244-6200.

*What: North Park University Student Diversity Leadership Conference. Presentation: Cultivating Christ-Centered TEAM Intercultural Competency

*Why: Learn and apply four central biblical competencies for relating interculturally.

*How: Go here to register: http://bit.ly/10Psrw. For the schedule, visit: http://bit.ly/19nqsb.

7. When: Saturday, October 31, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 to register. Ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar. Visit the church website at: http://bit.ly/N35Cd.

*Note: If your church, para-church group, ministry, or school would like to host an RPM Seminar or would like to have Dr. Kellemen present for you, please contact us at: rpm.ministries@gmail.com.

Your Personal Invitation to Be Equipped

Be Equipped to Change Lives

I’d like to invite you to join me at the AACC’s World Conference from Wednesday, September 16, 2009 through Saturday, September 19, 2009 in Nashville, TN.

Our Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network (BCSFN) has many equipping events planned to empower you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

BCSFN Pre-Conference

The BCSFN will hold its first “Conference-within-a Conference” during the AACC World Pre-Conference on Wednesday, September 18.

In the morning session from 9:00 AM to Noon, I will present on Developing a Theology and Methodology of Biblical Counseling. Learn seven essential biblical counseling competencies necessary to build a truly scriptural approach to Christian counseling.

In the afternoon session from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, Ron Hawkins will present on Using the Bible Accurately and Effectively in Biblical Counseling.

To register for the Pre-Conference go here http://tinyurl.com/nw5z2p and then select the Pre-Conferences by Kellemen and Hawkins to join others interested in biblical counseling and spiritual formation equipping.

BCSFN Track Presentations

During the AACC World Conference, from Thursday, September 17 to Saturday, September 19, the BCSFN has its own track, where we will be hearing from the following speakers:

*Ian F. Jones, “Biblical Counseling in the Historical Church,” Thursday, September 17, 8:45 to 10:00 AM, Session 103.

*Gary Moon, “Discipleship vs. Apprenticeship: An Experiential Approach to Spiritual Growth,” Thursday, September 17, 2:15 to 3:30 PM, Session 203.

*Robert W. Kellemen, “How to Practice Comprehensive Biblical Counseling: Implementing a Dozen Dreams,” Friday, September 18, 8:45-10:00 AM, Session 303. Learn how to care like Christ by providing Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling and spiritual formation.

*Scott E. Wiggington, “For Crying Out Loud: Reclaiming the Lost Language of Lament in Christian Counseling,” Friday, September 18, 2:15 to 3:30 PM, Session 403.

*Phil Monroe, “Engaging Biblical Texts in Trauma Therapy,” Friday, September 18, 4:15 to 5:30 PM, Session 503.

*John Thomas, “What’s Good About Feeling Bad: Developing a Theology of Suffering, Saturday, September 19, 8:45 to 10:00 AM, Session 603.

*Rick Marrs, “Making Christian Counseling More Christ-Centered,” Saturday, September 19, 2:15-3:30 PM, Session 703.

To register for the AACC World Conference Tracks, go here http://tinyurl.com/l284w6 and then select the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Foundations tracks when you sign-up.

BCSFN Mixer

Please join us on Friday evening for the BCSFN Mixer. Our time together will include fellowship, connecting, discussing the latest happenings in the BCSFN, and interacting about ways our division can better equip our members. We want to get to know you and benefit from your participation!

Register for the AACC World Conference

Please visit the following link to register for the 2009 AACC World Conference: http://www.aacc.net/conferences/2009-world-conference/

I look forward to connecting with each of you.

How Can We Help Equip You?

What Further Equipping Do You Seek?

Please let me know your thoughts on the following two questions. Either post a comment on the blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, or email us at: rpm.ministries@gmail.com.

1. What blog topics would you be interested in?

*Marriage
*Parenting
*Praying
*Anger
*Depression
*Anxiety
*Phobias
*Emotional Intelligence
*Sexual Abuse Recovery
*Overcoming Sexual Addiction
*Other: _______________

2. What ministry areas would you like further equipping in?

*Teaching/Preaching
*Equipping Lay People
*Evangelism
*Church Growth
*Administration/Leadership
*Change Management
*Conflict Resolution
*Church Discipline
*Worship
*Small Groups
*Other: ____________

Why Some Biblical Counseling Is Only Half Biblical! Part Five

Why Some Biblical Counseling Is Only Half Biblical!
Part Five: What to Do After the Hug

*Note: If you’re disappointed that I’m saying that some biblical counseling is only half biblical, then please read my comments at the end of this post.

My Premise

Some modern biblical counseling considers the seriousness of sin—sinning, but spends much less time equipping people to minister to the gravity of grinding affliction—suffering. When we provide counseling for sin, but fail to provide counseling and counselor training for suffering, then such biblical counseling is only half biblical.

What To Do After the Hug

Some might conclude, “But there’s really no need to teach people how to comfort the suffering because they do that naturally.”

I’m sure Job would disagree with that as it relates to his “miserable counselors” who called his suffering “sin.”

So, today we ask and answer the question: “What might it look like to train pastors and lay people to be soul physicians and spiritual friends who deal with suffering?”

The Bible has a great deal to say not only about suffering, but also about how to comfort the suffering. Church history has highlighted two core biblical counseling competencies for suffering:

*Sustaining

*Healing

In Spiritual Friends (http://tinyurl.com/nxbxes), pages 39-214 teach lay people, pastors, and students the following ten biblical relational skills for sustaining and healing. Here’s your primer:

*Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.”

Using the acronym GRACE, we need to learn five biblical relational competencies if we are to be comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed soul care-givers who offer sustaining comfort:

1. G: Grace Connecting
2. R: Rich Soul Empathizing
3. A: Accurate/Active Spiritual Listening
4. C: Caring Spiritual Conversations
5. E: Empathetic Scriptural Explorations

*Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.”

Using the acronym RESTS, we need to learn five biblical relational competencies if we are to be comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed soul care-givers who offer healing hope:

1. R: Relational Treatment Planning
2. E: Encouraging Communication
3. S: Story Reinterpreting
4. T: Thirsts Spiritual Conversations
5. S: Stretching Scriptural Explorations

How to Train Biblical “Sufferologists”

My point is not to say that I have cornered the market on equipping people how to offer biblical comfort for suffering. My point is that you can read many biblical counseling training manuals, attend many biblical counseling training seminars, and read many biblical counseling definitions, and find very little equipping for “sufferologists”—biblical counselors who offer sustaining empathy and healing encouragement.

Rather than assuming that we do this naturally, let’s do what the Bible and Church history do: let’s focus on biblical counseling and spiritual friendship equipping on how to train believers to deal both with sin and with suffering.

Where Do We Go From Here?

In my next post, I’ll share why I think biblical counseling lost its way. What historical, cultural, and personal realities help to explain why some modern biblical counseling is only half biblical?

*Note: Why I Am Addressing This Topic

All who have followed my ministry know that I am about bridge-building and not about wall-building. You might wonder then, “Bob, why blog about something that is surely to be controversial?”

Those who follow my ministry also know that I am about equipping God’s people to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth through comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling and spiritual formation.

Biblical counseling that fails to deal with suffering, fails the test of comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling. I would be a hypocrite to my calling if I remained silent.

Others might wonder, “Are you talking about a particular ‘model’ of modern biblical counseling, or about a particular person or persons who are writing today?”

No. I am not. This is not an attack against. These blogs are not directed toward any one person or group.

These blogs are directed to all of us—myself included—who love biblical counseling. They are for all of us—myself included—who need good Bereans to help us to assess how biblical or unbiblical our approaches to biblical counseling truly are.

I write to help, not to hurt. I write to equip, not to attack. I write to start a conversation, not to finish one.

Please join the conversation.

Are You Ready to Learn What to Do After the Hug?

Are You Ready to Learn What to Do after the Hug?

You care deeply. But perhaps sometimes you struggle to know what to do after the hug. Learn how to care like Christ--how to change lives with Christ's changeless truth.

In What to Do After the Hug, I've condensed all of Soul Physicians and all of Spiritual Friends in fifty pages. In fact, for good measure, I wove in and condensed Beyond the Suffering, too! In fifty pages, you gain my entire approach to biblical counseling and spiritual formation in miniature!

Think of it as your own refresher course on biblical counseling.

What a great way to equip those you minister to.

The Cost

The cost?

For just $7.50 you receive the fifty-page Word Document What to Do After the Hug as an e-document. It summarizes a Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed model of biblical counseling and spiritual formation to equip you to change lives with Christ's changless truth.

To Order

It’s simple. Order here by PayPal or with Visa or Master Card:

http://www.rpmbooks.org/credit_card_orders.html#hug

Or, phone order with Visa or Master Card to: 219-662-8138.

Or, send a check to RPM Ministries, PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, for $7.50. (Be sure to include your email address so we can send you your copy of the e-document: What to Do After the Hug.)

Enjoy!

RPM Ministries 2.0

RPM Ministries 2.0

Be Equipped by RPM Ministries 2.0

We’re taking RPM Ministries to the next level! And I do mean “we.” Over a dozen associates are now ministering with me to minister to you.

We are offering five different types of seminars. To learn about hosting one or attending one in your area, please email us: rpm.ministries@gmail.com.

We will also be updating them on our website in the coming dates.

New Facebook RPM Group

We have created a new Facebook RPM Ministries group. It will replace several different FB groups I have led, so that now I am on FB only in two places: my blog and the new RPM group. You can join here (see link below this paragraph) and received free resources and a boatload of equipping while connecting with other people passionate about changing lives.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=131391165161

Upcoming Blog Equipping

I want to thank all of you for following the RPM blog: Changeless Truth for Changing Times. You can bookmark it as a favorite at two addresses:

http://rpmministries.blogspot.com/ (On the RPM website)

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/changeless_truth_for_changing_times/ (On Facebook)

You Asked, We Deliver

Thank you for your feedback on what you want to see next from our upcoming posts.

Based upon your requests, in the coming months, we will be focusing on some of the following topics, in no particular order:

1. Blogs we follow and why.

2. Books we’re reading and why.

3. Equipping for pastors and lay people in comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling and spiritual formation for the church and para-church.

4. How to find hope when you’re hurting: God’s healing for life’s losses.

5. How to minister to sexual abuse victims.

6. How to understand and deal with issues of depression and anxiety.

7. Learning how to minister from the great female soul care-givers (based upon my soon-to-be-released book, co-authored with Susan Ellis).

Join the Journey

As you enjoy the conversation and join the journey, please consider:

1. Inviting others to join our blog family. 2. Rating the RPM blog (on Facebook): http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/changeless_truth_for_changing_times/
3. Putting the RPM blog on your blog, on your website, and linking our blog as a blog you read.4. Setting our blog as an RSS feed so you get daily updates.5. Guest blogging. 6. Commenting on the RPM blog home page: http://rpmministries.blogspot.com/

Core Equipping Course Goes Online

Be Equipped by the Book Online

I am excited to announce the first ever Capital Bible Seminary (CBS) online distance education (ODE) course.

I will be teaching Discipleship Counseling I (DC I) as an ODE course from February 4 to May 2, 2008. DC I is our core course which equips pastors, counselors, and lay people to think biblically about soul care, spiritual direction, and biblical counseling.

The online edition of DC I enables students to take the course from the comfort of their homes, on their own schedule, while actively engaging other course members and the professor through the course web site. Enrollment is strictly limited to the first fifteen qualified students. Because of pre-class assignments, the last day to enroll in this course is January 18, 2008.

To receive a copy of the DC I ODE syllabus please email me at bob.kellemen@gmail.com. For more information, or if you have questions, please feel free to contact me.