EP. 29 Launching A Biblical Counseling Ministry In A Established Church W/Pastor Andy Swart

• Episode Notes
• Moving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mount). 
• Creating an environment that allows people to struggle, starting from the platform. 
• Truth Renewed isn’t a replacement for the church regarding counseling, but an overflow of care. 
• Truth Renewed is a training center to help equip church leaders to become biblical counselors and launch biblical counseling in the local church. 
• Trident of ministry; robust theology, organization strategy, counsel and care.
• In the same way, we raise up leaders to make Sunday happen, we need to raise up care leaders for the rest of the week - where ministry lives.
• Don’t stop plowing, it takes time to bring life change and equipping the saints. 
• Trust the process of sanctification.
• Find those in your congregation who are gifted in caring for others, they’re serious about God’s Word and the process of transformation, and scholarship them. 
• Find a line item in your budget to cultivate the saints in soul care. 
• The posture of a pastor should be a leader of learning. 
• Sunday morning is to edify the saints. 
• Email us on any topics; [email protected] 
• Reach out to Shauna if  you’d like to start a biblical counseling ministry @ christiancounseling.com 

Episode Resources: 

• The Mount Church
• Metro Church
• Rage Ministries 
• Instruments in the Redeemer's Hand's 
• Christiancounseling.com 
• Information about training your lay leaders as biblical counselors or becoming a training center, email Shauna, [email protected]