TIL 428: Directing a Counseling Ministry (feat. Ernie Baker)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
1. The importance of establishing policies and procedures for a counseling ministry.
2. The relationship between ministry staff and the counseling ministry of the church.
3. Counseling policies and procedures in smaller church ministries.
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| 0:00.0 | directing a counseling ministry on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.3 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.2 | This week on the podcast, I have with me a dear friend, Ernie Baker, so grateful for this brother. |
| 0:27.2 | Ernie's been married to Rose, and the Lord has blessed them with six wonderful children, 11 |
| 0:32.5 | grandchildren. |
| 0:34.1 | He has the privilege of serving the Lord at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, |
| 0:37.9 | Florida as the pastor of counseling, supervision, and equipping. In addition, he's had the privilege |
| 0:42.8 | of chairing the online undergraduate degree in biblical counseling at the Master's University, |
| 0:48.2 | serving as an adjunct in the graduate program in counseling, and as director of training |
| 0:52.6 | for overseas instruction and counseling. |
| 0:55.0 | He's the author of Mary Wisely, Mary Well, also a booklet, Help, I'm in Conflict and Help Disability |
| 1:03.0 | Pressures My Marriage. He's also contributed chapters to five other books and written a lot of |
| 1:08.3 | journals and magazine articles as well. Ernie's certified |
| 1:12.0 | with us here at ACBC. He's also a fellow and a conciliator with the Institute for Christian |
| 1:18.6 | Conciliation. Brother, thank you for being here and having a conversation about counseling |
| 1:23.1 | ministry. Thanks, Dale. It's always a blessing. Yeah, looking forward to this. I think this is going to be very practical, very helpful for those who are either in the position of directing counseling ministry or thinking of doing something just like that. So let's talk on that level, if we can. Ernie, what have been your overall goals in establishing the counseling ministry? |
| 1:44.8 | So a little bit of history. |
| 1:47.0 | I was minding my own business seven or eight years ago when Heath Lambert called me, |
| 1:52.5 | and I was actually giving a final exam at the Masters. |
| 1:56.2 | And when I saw that Heath was calling, I walked out onto the patio there from the classroom while my students |
| 2:03.4 | were suffering, and Heath said, I'll get right to the point, I need you in Jacksonville. |
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