I am currently taking 11 Monday's at Faith Baptist Church (FBC) in Lafeyette, IN. This is run by Pastor Steve Viars and the FBC pastoral staff. I have learned quite a bit thus far. It is great sitting in on "live counseling" sessions. Counseling is such an important part of pastoral ministry.
Faith is def. a counseling church. If you want to see a church fully committed to biblical counseling FBC is the place. Grace Community (in Sun Valley, CA) is a preaching/teaching church while Faith is a big time counseling community. The counseling center allows many opportunities for evangelism and discipleship. I think they said they have a waiting list right now with 50 people on it. They utilize tons of lay people to assist in counseling. That's another thing FBC does well.
I was surprised that Faith sells books by Rick Warren and Bill Hybels in there church book store. Their book store is primarily stocked w/counseling resources... Pastor Mark Dutton used Purpose Driven Life for one of his HW assignments which again was surprising to me.
FBC is going to build a multi-million dollar Recreation Center. I guess they got a grant or loan from the community to help pay for this Rec Center. FBC also wants to start a church based seminary.
More to come,
CK
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