Recently, Curtis Solomon, the Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, interviewed Dr. Steve Viars, Sr. Pastor at Faith Church and Adjunct Professor at Faith Bible Seminary, both in Lafayette, Indiana. This interview, called 15:14, first appeared at the Biblical Counseling Coalition’s blog site here.
Dr. Viars joins Curtis to discuss the importance and value of reaching out to our neighbors with the love of Christ ministering to them both body and soul. Pastor Viars also shares how biblical counseling is an effective outreach that opens doors to other avenues of outreach through community-based ministry.
Learn how to love your community through offering loving biblical counseling.
Bob KellemenBob Kellemen, Th.M., Ph.D.: Dr. Kellemen is VP of Strategic Development and Academic Dean at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana. Bob is also the Founder and CEO of RPM Ministries through which he speaks, writes, and consults on biblical counseling and Christian living. Dr. Kellemen served as the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. For seventeen years, Bob was the founding Chairman of and Professor in the MA in Christian Counseling and Discipleship department at Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, MD. Bob has pastored four churches and equipped biblical counselors in each church. Bob and his wife, Shirley, have been married for thirty-eight years; they have two adult children, Josh and Marie, one daughter-in-law, Andi, and three granddaughters. Dr. Kellemen is the author of eighteen books including Equipping Counselors for Your Church, Gospel-Centered Counseling, and Gospel Conversations.
