Onesimus Workbook

S ESSION 1: T HE O NESIMUS V ISION • 17

Our Experience with the Incarcerated: Approaches to Effective Transformation

Therapeutic Approach

Identity Approach

Individual (internal)

Kingdom of God (external)

Starts with

Pursuing

Felt needs-actualization

Cosmic purpose

Break destructive cycles

Identity subsumed (whole)

Objective

Freedom from self-preoccupation

Solution

Find, accept, love self

Vision for ministry (all dimensions)

Primary Goals

Families; recidivism

Secondary Goals

Personal holiness

Families; recidivism

Friends, community, internship

Means

Job, housing, programs

IV. The Opportunity of a Lifetime

A. Seminary-trained, zealous leaders bringing their gifts and abilities to your church

B. 2 Timothy 2.2 (ESV) : “. . . and what you [Timothy] have heard from me [Paul] in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men [Onesimus], who will be able to teach others also.”