How do we build a discipleship community through building mental resilience and spiritual wellness through the Gospel?

• How to approach mental health from a biblical perspective.
• Lessons from a real-life story of a family that grappled with mental illness.
• How to respond to someone with suicidal thoughts.
• How to retrain our minds and build resilience through the Gospel.

conducted by Rev Dr Edward Goh

When a fellow believer tells us about his struggles or problems, is it helpful to talk to him
about God’s sovereignty, the problem of sin that’s at work in all of our hearts, and the love of God who sent His Son to rescue us from the wrath of God? What is so good about the Good News when someone is hurting?

Come and hear how we can bring the Gospel to bear on believers struggling with anxiety,
sadness, pain, suffering, or temptations on our discipleship journey.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

1 Peter 5:10

How can we apply biblical truths in the context of loving relationships?

We will learn and practise Gospel counselling conversations based on the truth about who Christ is and who we are in and to Christ – how we can Prepare, Listen, Reveal & Support as Christ’s ambassadors to the broken hearted

1. The Principles of Gospel Counselling Conversations
   1. The Call to Biblical Counselling
   2. The Goal of Biblical Counselling
   3. Biblical Counselling as a Community Project
   4. A Counsellor as Christ’s Ambassador
   5. Understanding Our Human Heart
   6. The Gospel of Our Salvation As Good News for Our Fallen Hearts
   7. The Unique Place of Prayer in Biblical Counselling
2. The Practice of Gospel Counselling Conversations
   1. Prepare
   2. Listen
   3. Reveal
   4. Support

What is mentoring?
What are the goals of mentoring?
What are the different styles of mentoring?

We are part of God’s cosmic plan to build up the body of Christ, but how can we be caring like Jesus when we see others suffering and grieving? What do we do or say when someone has experienced a great loss?

In this session we will learn how we can mourn alongside those who are grieving without causing more hurt. We will examine unbiblical reactions to suffering and the biblical perspective on the relief of physical suffering

One of the most powerful ways of caring for individuals who are suffering is through our presence and listening. The effective leader, teacher, mentor or counselor will be the person who learns how to listen and to use presence as a reminder to those in need that God has not forgotten or forsaken them.
Listening skills are important when caring for or comforting persons who are terminally ill, going through a divorce, in a family with a seriously ill member, unemployed, grieving, traumatised by catastrophe, going through teenage adolescence or childhood stress.
Get Biblical and practical advice for responding to those who are hurting. Become aware of good and poor listening habits. Learn listening skills to build up friendship, marriage and relationship with those you care about

Lasting change is harder than we think, even when we know the stakes are high.

The good news is God has revealed his blueprint to transform us from self-worshipping, self-sufficient, self-centered, self-driven persons to Christ-worshipping, Christ-sufficient, Christ-centered, and Christ-pursuing persons in Christ’s Body

• Why do we need Biblical Lenses?
• What are Biblical Lenses?
• How do we apply Bilical Lenses in our discipleship community?