Discipleship Toolbox
Filtering By Tag: Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
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You Talk to Yourself
Tripp explains the importance of understanding how your own thinking influences your life and your heart. You listen to yourself more than anyone else. What are you telling yourself?
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Tracking the Way Down
Taken from Quieting a Noisy Soul, describes how people go down through unbelief to anxiety or anger and eventually despair. Great teaching tool.
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The Three Trees - How People Change
Illustration from the book How People Change. This diagram is the basis of the other tools created from the three trees.
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The Three Trees Detailed Roadmap
Rich counseling or discipleship tool that teaches people how to put off bad fruit/root and to put on good fruit and roots in response to the situations of life through the gospel.
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Three Trees Counseling Roadmap
Shows the relationship between a situation, good fruit and root, bad fruit and root, and the solution of the gospel. Helpful teaching chart and worksheet to use with counselee.
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The Process of Biblical Change - Y Chart Filled in
Helps people to understand how people grow and change and the relationship between the heart and choices. This one has the blanks filled in.
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The Process of Biblical Change - Y Chart with blanks
To give to a counselee or discipleship partner or mentee to help them understand the process of change and the relationship between the heart and worship and thinking and choices.
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The Cycle of Captivity
Describes the cycle of captivity and enslavement to sin and how to be free from enslavement to sin through the gospel.
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The Circle of Responsibility Diagram and How To Use It
Explains the concern versus responsibility diagram and how to use it. Very helpful in helping anxious or overreaching people to trust God.
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Stabilizing Truths for a Noisy Soul with Stop/Think Cards
10 stabilizing truths - God’s attributes and promises to remember when you are anxious, depressed, angry, or tempted or facing any other situation. Includes Stop/Think card instructions.
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Stabilizing Truths for a Noisy Soul
Gives 10 stabilizing truths for any Christian to help them trust God in the face of anxiety, depression, temptation, anger, or any other situation.
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Renewing a Thought Worksheet
Worksheet to give to a counselee or discipleship partner to help them learn how to renew their thinking. Helpful for any sin struggle, any issue someone is facing.
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Put-off, Put-on Dynamic
Great worksheet to give to counselee or discipleship partner to help them think through how to put off sin and put on obedience to Christ.
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Progressive Sanctification Diagram
Describes the process of progressive sanctification in a diagram. Helpful teaching tool to show someone how to grow and change. Shows how different aspects of growth a related.
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Pleasing God Bible Study
Gives passages to look up regarding pleasing God and questions to discuss. Good homework assignment for counselee or discipleship partner.
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Marriage and Roles Shepherding Tool
Describes the Biblical model for marriage and the husband’s role and the role of the wife. Great tool to use for marriage counseling or premarital counseling.
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How To Incite Others To Grow
Describes the process of growth through putting off and putting on and the way down Y chart. Great tool for teaching people how to put off sin, be renewed and put on obedience to Christ.
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Heart Journal
This is a discipleship or counseling tool to give to someone to evaluate a situation, what they did, what they were thinking and feeling, what the Bible says, & what they should think and do next time
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Five Questions I Wished My Accountability Partner Would Ask Me
Questions to ask your accountability partner to deepen your relationship. Great for any discipleship relationship.
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Counseling and Our Union With Christ
Tiffe describes how union with Christ is a key principle to teach when helping anyone in a counseling or discipleship setting. Uses Romans 6 to teach this important truth.
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Concern or Responsibility
Illustration of concern versus responsibility paradigm. What is our concern, but not our responsibility? How can we tell the difference between concern and responsibility?
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Arrow Diagram & Goal in Life
Describes the goal in life of pleasing God and the role of thinking, actions and emotions in all of life. Helpful tool for counseling or discipling anyone. Shows relationship between mind, heart, will
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The Anger Spectrum
Document picturing the different manifestations of anger, from apathy, criticism and manipulation to yelling, physical abuse and road rage.
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Pictures of God’s Forgiveness of His People
A one page worksheet to study in the Bible how God forgives His people.
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Motives: Why Do I Do The Things I Do?
Whatever we trust in or love is an idol if it replaces the true God. Welch shows us many different motives that can reveal heart idols. Good tool for both the mentor and mentee.
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Four Rules of Communication
This is a tool to help couples and anyone with communication.
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Forgiveness
Concise description of what forgiveness is and how to pursue it. Very clear on attitudinal forgiveness versus transactional forgiveness that ends in reconciliation. Helpful tool for counseling
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How To Confess That I Was Wrong
This is a multiple page document you would want to print out to use to help someone think through how to confess their sin and ask for forgiveness and seek reconciliation.
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Finding Gospel Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Bitterness
Jones helps us think through the different kinds of anger and how to find gospel freedom from sinful anger, also dealing with resentment and bitterness.
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Battle Plan for Killing Sin
Battle plan for killing sins document. Helpful for those dealing with life dominating sins. Helpful for any discipleship and training someone to fight sin.
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Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God's Resources in Scripture
Shows how the truths of God's Word can be released to bring help, hope, and healing into the lives of those who struggle with some of the most difficult psychiatric diagnoses. Bipolar depression
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