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Resources for Changing Lives

A series published in cooperation with

THE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Glenside, Pennsylvania

Susan Lutz, Series Editor

Available in the series:

Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man

Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

Edward T. Welch, Blame It on the Brain? Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience

James C. Petty, Step by Step: Divine Guidance for Ordinary Christians

Paul David Tripp, War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles

Edward T. Welch, AddictionsA Banquet in the Grave: Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel

Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemers Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

David Powlison, Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition through the Lens of Scripture

INSTRUMENTS

in the

REDEEMERS

HANDS

People in Need of Change

Helping People in Need of Change

PAUL DAVID TRIPP

2002 by Paul David Tripp

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwiseexcept for brief quotations for the purpose of review or comment, without the prior permission of the publisher, P&R Publishing Company, P.O. Box 817, Phillipsburg, New Jersey 08865-0817.

Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible
Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Homework assignments from appendix 5 may be photocopied under the following conditions: (1) you have purchased a copy of this book, (2) you use these photocopied assignments with your counselees, and (3) you charge no more than the cost of photocopying.

Italics in Scripture quotations indicate emphasis added.

Page design by Tobias Design

Typesetting by Michelle Feaster

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 978-1-62995-144-7 (ePub)

ISBN: 978-1-62995-145-4 (Mobi)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tripp, Paul David, 1950

Instruments in the Redeemers hands : people in need of change helping
people in need of change / Paul David Tripp.p. cm.(Resources for changing lives)Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 978-0-87552-607-2 (pbk.)1. Peer counseling in the church. I. Title. II. Series.BV4409.T75 2002253dc21

2002028537

To Tedd.

Thanks for leading the way.

Contents

Illustrations ix

Preface xi

1. The Best of News: A Reason to Get Up in the Morning 1

2. In the Hands of the Redeemer 17

3. Do We Really Need Help? 37

4. The Heart Is the Target 57

5. Understanding Your Heart Struggle 75

6. Following the Wonderful Counselor 95

7. Building Relationships by Entering Their World 115

8. Building Relationships by Identifying with Suffering 141

9. Getting to Know People 161

10. Discovering Where Change Is Needed 183

11. The Goals of Speaking the Truth in Love 199

12. The Process of Speaking the Truth in Love 221

13. Establishing Agenda and Clarifying Responsibility 239

14. Instilling Identity with Christ and
Providing Accountability 259

Appendixes

1. Opening Blind Eyes: Another Look at
Data Gathering 277

2. What the Counselor Brings to the Process of
Data Gathering 288

3. Strategies for Data Gathering 301

4. Doctrines that Drive Homework 318

5. Homework and Four Phases of Counseling 329

Notes 355

Index of Scripture 357

Illustrations

6.1 Serving as an instrument of change 110

7.1 The Relational Foundation for Ministry:
Salvation as Our Model 121

7.2 The Four Elements of a Loving Ministry Relationship 126

8.1 Fellow Sufferers with Christ (Heb. 2:1011) 149

10.1 Knowing a Person Biblically 188

11.1 A Balanced Gospel Perspective 218

13.1 Clarifying Responsibility 250

Preface

What God has ordained for his church is both wonderful and sobering. It is wonderful because he is a jealous and determined God. His work in his people will not fail, but will continue until it is completed. It is sobering because this work follows an all of my people, all of the time model.

Many of us would be relieved if God had placed our sanctification in the hands of trained and paid professionals, but that simply is not the biblical model. Gods plan is that through the faithful ministry of every part, the whole body will grow to full maturity in Christ. The leaders of his church have been gifted, positioned, and appointed to train and mobilize the people of God for this every person, everyday ministry lifestyle.

The paradigm is simple: when God calls you to himself, he also calls you to be a servant, an instrument in his redeeming hands. All of his children are called into ministry, and each of them needs the daily intervention this ministry provides. If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed. This need will remain until our sanctification is complete in Glory.

That is what this book is about: how God uses people, who are themselves in need of change, as instruments of the same kind of change in others. This books goal is not just that peoples lives would be changed as they give help and receive it. The goal is to help change the churchs very culture.

I am persuaded that the church today has many more consumers than committed participants. Sure, Joe and Sheila may volunteer for a specific activity like VBS or a diaconal project, but this frequently falls woefully short of the everyone, all the time model of the New Testament. Our tendency toward ecclesiastical consumerism has seriously weakened the church. For most of us, church is merely an event we attend or an organization we belong to. We do not see it as a calling that shapes our entire life.

But consider this: we could never hire enough paid staff to meet the ministry needs of the average local church. The passive body that pays the professionals culture of the modern evangelical church must be forsaken for the ministry model God has so wisely ordained. To that end this book has been written.

As always when I come to the end of a project like this, I am aware of how privileged I am. To be released for six months from normal ministry responsibilities to focus on writing is an amazing gift. My thanks goes out to John Bettler, the faculty and staff of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation, and to all of Gods people who have sacrificially given to make this work possible. I must extend my thanks as well to Sue Lutz. Sue, your editing ability is outstanding. Thank you for being willing to turn my thoughts into words that make sense, and thank you for being willing to give me the bad news when you are convinced it will make the book better.

Finally, as you read, some of you may wonder why this book doesnt have a chapter-by-chapter study guide. The reason is that this material has been developed as discipleship curriculum for local churches. The Instruments of Change curriculum contains twelve lessons with both leaders guide and student manuals available. Each lesson has a threefold focus: concepts you need to know, how those apply to you personally, and how they set an agenda for your relationships and ministry.

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