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Listen "#39: David Ferguson. Founder, Great Commitment Network & Relational Values Alliance. Intimacy Therapy. Marriage & family discipleship & outreach. Taking relational skills into businesses & community."
Episode Synopsis
• 00:00 – Background. Education. Nuclear physics. Computer science. Counseling. Theology.
• 03:44 – Marriage ministry. Counseling degree. Struggles in own marriage.
• 05:40 – Reasons for marriage. First human need – not being alone.
• 08:42 – Intimacy therapy. Not being alone from God and others. Known and being known.
• 11:09 – Different counseling models. Cognitive/behavioral. Emotional Focused therapy. Human motivation underlying therapy models. Biblical motivation: Great Commandment, longing for relationship with God and others.
• 14:05 – Key practices for healthy marriages. Weekly date, meeting time. Share lives – vulnerability, honesty about hopes, dreams. Random acts of kindness.
• 17:59 – Knowing and meeting relational needs of spouse and children. Acting on the "one another" passages in Scripture.
• 22:05 – Finding relational needs in Scripture.
• 23:08 – Applying biblical relational skills in business world. Interest in developing financial resources so he could give ministry tools freely to churches. Entrepreneurial experiences with counseling centers. Selling radio stations.
• 27:37 – Increased interest in business world for relational skills training. Re-examining purposes of businesses - profit and well-being/flourishing of employees. Putting people first paradigm for business.
• 30:01 – Subsidiary benefit of business, relational skills training – strengthening of employees marriages and families.
• 33:01 – Implementation of relational skills in company - start at the top, key leaders then multiplying throughout the company.
• 35:19 – Benefit of relational skills training in businesses - increased employee engagement. Addresses needs of GenZ'ers,
looking for career, cause, and community.
• 37:18 – Measuring benefits of relational skills training - improved employee attraction, retention, and engagement. Improved customer satisfaction and bottom line.
• 40:50 – Whole life discipleship encompasses marriage, family, and workplace ministry. Not tangential to making disciples but part of it. Having abundant life expressed in all areas of life. Helping pastors see marriage and family relational ministry is good for outreach. Hunger in community for relational help.
• 45:11 – Develop a nonlinear approach to Gospel in increasingly post Christian society. Meeting needs, sharing love opens door to sharing Gospel message.
• 47:04 – Strengthening pastors' marriages helps strengthen marriage ministry in church. Galatians 6:6 marriage retreats for pastors and spouses.
• 49:29 – Take relational skills training into community-wide efforts - churches, schools, workplace, and families. See community transformation.
• 51:55 – Resources. Ministry Website: www.greatcommandment.net. Workplace/Community Website: www.relationalvalues. com. Email: [email protected].
• 03:44 – Marriage ministry. Counseling degree. Struggles in own marriage.
• 05:40 – Reasons for marriage. First human need – not being alone.
• 08:42 – Intimacy therapy. Not being alone from God and others. Known and being known.
• 11:09 – Different counseling models. Cognitive/behavioral. Emotional Focused therapy. Human motivation underlying therapy models. Biblical motivation: Great Commandment, longing for relationship with God and others.
• 14:05 – Key practices for healthy marriages. Weekly date, meeting time. Share lives – vulnerability, honesty about hopes, dreams. Random acts of kindness.
• 17:59 – Knowing and meeting relational needs of spouse and children. Acting on the "one another" passages in Scripture.
• 22:05 – Finding relational needs in Scripture.
• 23:08 – Applying biblical relational skills in business world. Interest in developing financial resources so he could give ministry tools freely to churches. Entrepreneurial experiences with counseling centers. Selling radio stations.
• 27:37 – Increased interest in business world for relational skills training. Re-examining purposes of businesses - profit and well-being/flourishing of employees. Putting people first paradigm for business.
• 30:01 – Subsidiary benefit of business, relational skills training – strengthening of employees marriages and families.
• 33:01 – Implementation of relational skills in company - start at the top, key leaders then multiplying throughout the company.
• 35:19 – Benefit of relational skills training in businesses - increased employee engagement. Addresses needs of GenZ'ers,
looking for career, cause, and community.
• 37:18 – Measuring benefits of relational skills training - improved employee attraction, retention, and engagement. Improved customer satisfaction and bottom line.
• 40:50 – Whole life discipleship encompasses marriage, family, and workplace ministry. Not tangential to making disciples but part of it. Having abundant life expressed in all areas of life. Helping pastors see marriage and family relational ministry is good for outreach. Hunger in community for relational help.
• 45:11 – Develop a nonlinear approach to Gospel in increasingly post Christian society. Meeting needs, sharing love opens door to sharing Gospel message.
• 47:04 – Strengthening pastors' marriages helps strengthen marriage ministry in church. Galatians 6:6 marriage retreats for pastors and spouses.
• 49:29 – Take relational skills training into community-wide efforts - churches, schools, workplace, and families. See community transformation.
• 51:55 – Resources. Ministry Website: www.greatcommandment.net. Workplace/Community Website: www.relationalvalues. com. Email: [email protected].
In God we trust