Practicing Christian Leadership, Mentor's Guide, MG11

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e. Prov. 19.20

f. Prov. 20.18

g. Eccles. 4.13

2. Analyzing the symptoms of behavior and conduct, while helpful, may ignore the weightier matters which arise from deeper, root causes.

a. External things do not bring defilement to a person, Mark 7.14-15.

b. Why defilement comes from within, Mark 7.17-23

c. Titus 1.15

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d. Heb. 12.15

3. No one is competent on their own to be ministers of the new covenant; only through God’s supply and provision are we able to fulfill our ministries, 2 Cor. 3.4-6.

4. Problems we deal with as counselors may have physical or physiological roots which lie at the root of some behavior.

5. No counselor’s diagnosis is so fool proof that it deserves to be exempt from being double checked or tested for its accuracy.