Ep. 253 Am I the Only ACBC Continuationist Fellow?

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Shows Main Idea – Are you a Trinitarian? Do you believe the Holy Spirit is part of the Godhead? What is your doctrine of the Spirit? How does the Spirit of God actively and practically operate in your life? Do you believe He has ceased in His involvement in your life? The two categories for this are cessationist and continuationist. I’m an ACBC Fellow and a continuationist.

Show Notes

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• Counseling Is Prayer and Prophecy
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• How Do I Begin a Counseling Ministry at My Church

1. What is a Fellow?
   1. Learn more about Rick.
   2. Have Rick speak to your group.
2. The process of becoming a Fellow?
3. The theological exam?
4. I’m a Trinitarian.
5. It may help you to think of a cessationist and continuationist standing to the left and right, respectively, of a center point. You draw a circle around both of them, as they stand side-by-side in the center. What you will find are many good men and women on both sides. As you move farther to either extreme, is where you get into trouble, but near the center are differing views on secondary matters.
6. Many gifts of the Spirit? (I don’t take the view of “when that which is perfect has come” to be the Word of God. Thus, the gifts have ceased.)
   1. Gift #1: Salvation
   2. Gift #2: Repentance
   3. Gift #463: Healing
      1. When you’re sick, you ask God to heal because He can.
      2. You may call for the elders of the church to anoint you with oil and pray for healing.
7. Gift #464: Word from the Lord
   1. Baptists say, “God laid something on my heart.”
8. Gift #465: Speaking in tongues
   1. What it does not mean.
   2. What it could mean.
9. The ACBC dinner after receiving my Fellowship
10. What Lance Quinn told me.
11. Counseling is prayer and prophecy.
12. Who gets the glory!

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Rick Thomas

Rick launched the Life Over Coffee global training network in 2008 to bring hope and help for you and others by creating resources that spark conversations for transformation. His primary responsibilities are resource creation and leadership development, which he does through speaking, writing, podcasting, and educating.

In 1990 he earned a BA in Theology and, in 1991, a BS in Education. In 1993, he received his ordination into Christian ministry, and in 2000 he graduated with an MA in Counseling from The Master’s University. In 2006 he was recognized as a Fellow of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC).