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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You have just completed “Growing: Year Two’s Special Features.”
The Special Features Training
Skills That Help Hurting People
Now that you have exposed yourself to those things that make it possible for you to bring healing to your friend, you and Jesus will be able to start asking your friend those important questions. As you visit with them, you will have a very valuable purpose for learning certain things about them. Rather than just talking about things that don’t bring healing, you will care enough for them to get to know things that will help you help them.
Helping Your Friends
By Using All Of The Website
The Power Series Introduction
As you are asking your friend questions, you may discover that they aren’t ready for Bible Life Counseling. You may discover they have not been born again. There is a program that you can familiarize yourself with, called Living The Power Life series program. Just go to the WCTLC Start Page and select, “I want to know more about CHRISTIANITY.” Rather than having to try to convince them they need Jesus’ salvation, you can take them through the Living The Power Life series.
The Living The Power Life Series Application
If your friend is already a Christian, but you don’t get the impression that they are ready for Bible Life Counseling, then you might ask Jesus, if they should go through becoming a better Christian. Just select, “I want to be a BETTER Christian” and see if that is the kind of help your friend needs. Since your training in Growing Year Two is only dealing with Bible Life Counseling, you would want to either practice it by yourself or wait until you have a friend that is ready for it.
If you decide to wait on Growing: Year Two, you can be familiarizing yourself with “I want to know more about CHRISTIANITY,” or “I want to be a BETTER Christian.” While you are waiting for a friend, who is ready to go through Bible Life Counseling, you might check out “I want DEVOTIONS to do each day” and select I’m “The Victorious Christian Life” Regular Participant. It will make sure you are continuing to get the mature spiritual food you need. Be sure to read the information on its introductory page.
Prayers That Make A Difference
While you are learning more and more about your friend’s past, their problems, their goals, their plans, their method for the pursuit of happiness, and their dreams, you will be able to develop some prayers that will bring Jesus into their life in a special way. You will be able to pray for them and for yourself that Jesus will bring the two of you together for spiritual growth.
Jesus will help you ask the right questions. He will help you pray the right prayers. And, He will help you develop a plan for bringing spiritual growth into their life; but, you need spiritual growth too. Since Bible Life University doesn’t have a program for Living The Power Life, you will need to develop one similar for yourself. You need to be going through Living The Power Life, while making sure you are involved in something like, The Victorious Christian Life program.
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Being Trained As A Minister By Jesus
While you are praying, visiting with your friend, asking important questions, and listening to Jesus for how to help your friend, you can be getting familiar with Bible Life Counseling. The more you know about it, the more you will see how Jesus will use it to help your friend.
You are already trained by Him in some very powerful ways. You are now ready to be helped understand how to be a minister. You will be amazed at how much is stored in your mind and heart just waiting to be activated. Jesus has worked and will continue to work miracles in your heart and mind; just trust Him!
The Discovery Series
If your friend is a Christian, who is struggling with an addiction, a major emotional, relational, or financial issue, then you would need to familiarize yourself with the series provided by selecting, “I want to overcome a LIFE PROBLEM” on the WCTLC Start Page. Before you select the little dark green bar, at the top of the page: “I’m A Regular Participant”, read the introduction to that program below it.
If you are not sure which problem is bothering your friend the most, you might start with the “Life” issue and then go to “Finding The Right Problem.” Just go through it, as if you are your friend, to see if you can identify their main problem. As you are asking them questions, you will start to see struggles that they are going through. You are looking for: What issue is bothering them the most? Which one is causing most of the others? Which one needs to be dealt with first? And, which one will motivate them to keep seeking Jesus’ help?
The Resouce Program
There will be special needs your friend will have that must be addressed additionally. While you and your friend are going through a particular series, you will probably need supplimental prayers, books, booklets, pamphlets, and worksheets. It would be good for you to familiarize yourself with all those things that may help you and your friend with times when something unique and unexpected happens.
WCTLC’s Start Page
If you have time, it would be good to go over the items on the website. On the WCTLC Start Page, just select, “What is this WEBSITE all about?” It has information about all the programs available. Consider going to each program in the website and just read the introduction for each program. That will help you understand what you have available to you and your friend.
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