Class 401

Desperate Dependency LIVE Counselor Cohort

Do you feel unprepared to offer any spiritual solutions to hurting people?

Do you struggle to know how to make Christ relevant to the issues of life?

Do you strive to understand the significance and power of God to liberate the soul from bondage?

Desperate Dependency LIVE Counselor Cohort 401 will prepare you as a Biblical Church Counselor to help others find Christ relevant to the issues of life so that they may experience love, joy, and peace.

GOAL:

Desperate Dependency LIVE Counselor Cohort 401 will mentor Biblical Church Counselors to help others mature in a desperately dependent relationship with Christ so that they find Him relevant to every issue of life through live cohort sessions and role plays.

OBJECTIVES:

As a result of taking this course, participants will:

1. Help others develop a deeper understanding of problems—Christ is missing—as experienced through live mentoring cohort interactions and role plays.

2. Challenge others to discover that Christ is the solution to all problems and demonstrate competency through role plays.

3. Encourage others to mature in dependency and find that Christ is enough through feedback, challenge, and support in a live cohort setting.

EXPECTATIONS:

Desperate Dependency LIVE Counselor Cohort provides the option of receiving a Completion Certificate at the end of the class. This Completion Certificate is necessary if you are pursuing a recommendation for ordination as a Biblical Church Counselor through DDCommunity. The certificate also offers the added benefit of a sense of achievement.

An application for the certificate includes an attestation that:

• I have read all of Desperate Dependency.
• I have watched all the Desperate Dependency videos.
• I have actively participated in the cohorts.
• I have not missed more than two Counselor Cohort sessions.
• I left a review COMMENT.
  
  

THIS CLASS INCLUDES:

• 30 hours of LIVE Counselor Cohort mentoring over 15 weeks (each session 2 hours).
• Practical application of biblical counseling principles based on the material of Desperate Dependency: Finding Christ Relevant to Every Area of Life.
• Evaluation of spiritual case studies.
• Simulated counseling experiences via role-plays.
• Group participation facilitates a deeper understanding for all.
• Active mentoring with all in attendance.
• Certificate of Completion to be applied toward Biblical Church Counselor training.

Desperate Dependency LIVE Counselor Cohort is a group of people studying and discussing Desperate Dependency to help others find Christ relevant to every area of life.

After you have read each week's assigned readings, watched the videos, and attended the Desperate Dependency Counselor Cohort, we are sure you will have issues and insights to discuss. Bring them to the group, and let's talk about how you can help others find Christ relevant to their lives!

Come join us on the journey to helping others find Christ relevant to every area of life!

Meet your teachers: Kirk and Melanie Lewis

For decades Kirk and Melanie Lewis have ministered as a team, challenging people to an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ. As counselors, they are committed to using biblical principles to facilitate healing and liberate weary souls from emotional bondage. Their counsel is founded upon the belief that Jesus Christ is the center of well-being and that the Bible is our authority.

Kirk and Melanie engage and encourage Christian leaders to find Christ relevant to every area of life through the ministries of Desperately Dependent Community in Chattanooga, TN.

Come join us on the journey to Desperate Dependency: Finding Christ Relevant to Every Area of Life.

More Testimonials

Reviews

This class helped me to see the many different practical applications of scripture to my own life, in the context of learning to minister to others. And, realizing I must have a deeper understanding and dependence on God. I learned that I have no ability to help others unless I am foundationally secure and connected to God. 

I would absolutely recommend this course to others, because we are asked to share with other believers' resources to help each other on this journey of life; learning how to make Christ relevant to all issues we face.

Anyone who is interested in loving others and helping others to see Jesus and being obedient to what Jesus tells us on how to counsel would benefit from taking this course. Even if you are not being led to be an official Biblical Church Counselor, the Lord is putting people in our lives that He wants us to Love and be in relationship with and to help; another way to point people to Christ.

Kirk and Melanie have developed a great curriculum including the videos that expound even deeper into each week's teaching. Role playing in the context of real-life counseling scenarios were challenging for me, but the ability to get feedback and Biblical answers to how to best help people was awesome. We learned how to resist the temptation to lean on our personal experiences and so-called wisdom, deferring instead to that which God tells us in the Bible (Prov 3:5). Every problem of life can be met with the solution in Jesus; in the Word of God. 
With a group of other class participants, it was good to see how each has different God given gifts to guide their role play of counseling.

This is an opportunity to be better equipped to share the Lord with others. –Tim

This counseling class has been instrumental to my understanding of how the Holy Spirit works in my life to speak the truth in love to others. Whether it is sharing the gospel truth to someone who does not know God, or helping others see where Christ is relevant to their struggles, this class helps to make sure you're pointing others to Jesus. This class is appropriate for not only those interested in using counseling within their ministry, but also how to have conversations with the people God puts in your life. –Meghan

This class helped to show me that I am capable of using my voice when speaking into the lives of other people through the power of the Holy Spirit rather than keeping quiet because of lack of confidence in what Christ is able to do through me. It also revealed issues in my own life as I was put into positions to counsel others dealing with the same issues I do or when being counseled on issues in my own life by others. This course also gave me tools and a framework to speak into the lives of others biblically. 

I'd recommend this course to anyone who seeks to speak into the lives of their brothers and sisters in Christ and thus fulfill the "One Anothers" of scripture in this way. –David