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Neuro-Linguistic Psychology Modeling Jesus As a Preacher and Pastoral Counselor Rev. Dr. Wilfredo J. Baez November 11, 2014 In Neuro-linguistic Psychology Modeling Jesus as a Preacher and Pastoral Counselor Rev. Dr. Wilfredo J. Baez November 11, 2014 In partial fulfillment of requirements for The Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology University of Central Nicaragua 1 The Evaluator Committee of the UCN for Dissertation by Wilfredo J. Baez Karl Nielsen, PhD Head of the International School of Psychology @ UCN Professor in Psychology and Clinical Psychology Universidad Central de Nicaragua Richard M. Gray, PhD Research Director for the NLP Research and Recognition Project Nandana Nielsen, PhD Professor in Psychology and Clinical Psychology Universidad Central de Nicaragua 2 "I hereby declare on oath that I have written the submitted dissertation (Neuro-linguistic Psychology Modeling Jesus as a Preacher and Pastoral Counselor) independently and without unauthorized assistance. I have not used other than the named tools and scripts. All used parts of other authors either literally or correspondingly are cited." 3 Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 9 Problem 9 Methodology 15 Chapter 2 Literature Review: NLP & Modeling 22 Introduction to NLP 21 NLP Presuppositions 31 NLP Modeling 36 Dilts’ Modeling of Jesus 40 NLP Modeling Jesus as a Preacher: Gonzalez 53 Chapter 3 Literature Review: Jesus as a Preacher: Academic 102 Ralph and Gregg Lewis 102 Raymond Bailey 131 John MacArthur 140 Mike Abrendoth 142 William Brosend 156 Francis Handy 157 Herschel Sheets 159 Rick Warren 159 Fred Craddock 162 Eugene Lowry 167 Calvin Miller 169 4 Robert Mounce 171 Haddon Robinson 172 Thomas Long 172 Bryan Chapell 173 Hughes Oliphant Olds 174 Characteristics of Jesus to Model for Preaching 175 Chapter 4 Literature Review: The Kingdom of God/Heaven 184 Jim Marion 184 Benedict Viviano 203 The Kingdom of God (Heaven) in the New Testament 223 Chapter 5 Literature Review: Development Human Consciousness 233 Jim Marian and Ken Wilbur 233 Chapter 6 Literature Review: Jesus as a Pastoral Counselor 255 Introduction 255 Gonzalez: Jesus as a Pastoral Counselor and Psychotherapist 259 Logotherapy and Jesus: Victor Frankl and Robert Leslie 352 Pastoral Counseling and Psychotherapy and Jesus 419 Chapter 7 NLP Procedures for Effective Preaching 421 Hypnosis, Trance and Rapport 421 Learning State 423 Well-formed Outcomes 425 Modeling 431 5 Management of Cognitive and Emotional States 438 Performance State 444 Embedded Commands 458 Sermon: Come to Church 459 Rapport, Matching and Mirroring 459 Matching and Mirroring 459 Being Your Natural Self 471 Overcoming Fear 473 Limiting Beliefs 479 Time-Line 486 Energy Production and Maintenance 490 Incident-Point-Incident 502 Installing Patterns 504 Representational Systems 506 Sermon: The Potter’s Hands 523 Generating Charisma 526 Anchoring 528 Owning the Preaching Space 544 Non-verbal Communication 546 Satir Communication Patterns 546 Inflection 554 4- MAT and Meta Programs 557 Setting the Frame 563 6 Sermon: Kingdom of God 566 Changing States 568 Metaphors and Stories 571 Universal Stories 573 Nested Story Loops 576 Sermon: Faith Works 580 Chapter 8 Introducing Jesus as Our Model 588 Modeling on Jesus: Gospel of Mark 589 Modeling on Jesus: Gospel of Matthew 592 Modeling on Jesus: Gospel of Luke 597 Modeling on Jesus: Gospel of John 602 Chapter 9 Sermon on the Mount through the Lens of NLP 609 Chapter 10 Applied Modeling 661 Modeling on Jesus’ Delivery of Sermon on the Mount 661 The Horton Ladder: Modeling on Jesus as Preacher 705 Modeling on a Preferred Preacher 722 Modeling the Kingdom of God 729 Chapter 11 Modeling for Pastoral Counseling 737 General Model 737 Modeling on Jesus as a Counselor 739 Jesus and Nicodemus 814 7 The Horton Ladder: Modeling on Jesus as a Counselor 820 Modeling the Kingdom of God 823 Chapter 12 Conclusion 830 Listing of Exercises 834 8 Chapter 1: Introduction Problem My aim in this study is twofold. First, it is to present a model for training pastors, clergy and laity, to preach and counsel more effectively utilizing the principles, practices, and procedures of Neuro-linguistic Psychology. I want them to be able to use NLP in their preaching and counseling. Second, it is to present a procedure for modeling the person, preaching and counseling of Jesus Christ, utilizing the modeling approach of Robert Dilts. By this procedure pastors will learn to preach and counsel like Jesus and replicate the effects of his communication upon his audiences in their preaching and counseling. The idea is for them to become more like Jesus as a Preacher and counselor. Having learned to model Jesus, they will be able to follow the principles they learned by modeling on Jesus in modeling other Preachers and counselors. In the end, this study will provide a manual of NLP and NLP modeling that pastors can use to become better Preachers and counselors. The primary audience for this study is pastors and persons assuming pastoral roles of preaching and counseling. Pastors preach and counsel. By learning NLP and utilizing it, pastors will be enabled to communicate effectively from the pulpit and in counseling. NLP provides a set of presumptions, practices, and procedures that can increase the quality of communications of pastors for application in preaching and counseling. Both 9 of these functions are important, but in my estimation, preaching is the more important role. Much can be generalized into counseling from training in preaching as communication is part of both. Generalization is the act or process whereby a learned response is made to a stimulus similar to but not identical with the conditioned stimulus. It is the process by which elements or pieces of a person's model become detached from their original experience and come to represent the entire category of which the experience is an example (Bandler and Grinder, 1975). The modeling techniques presented come from the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I propose that NLP can be used to develop excellent Preachers and pastoral counselors. I also propose that it can be used to train pastors to preach and counsel like any model. In this study I will utilize Jesus as the model. NLP modeling is referred to as behavioral modeling (Dilts, 1998). I believe that it is more accurately described as cognitive behavioral modeling and that this is what Dilts intends. Modeling is not limited to the external, physical behavior of the subject but includes the internal, cognitive behavior of the subject and the internal reality or consciousness of the subject (Dilts, 1998). Modeling Jesus will include modeling the mind of Jesus and the levels and states of consciousness presumed to exist in him. NLP modeling is an approach to learning that involves observation, imitation, internalization, and incorporation of aspects of a model until the characteristics and 10 behaviors of the model are replicated in the observer with the same outcomes that were observed in the model (Dilts, 1998). The approach to modeling utilized in this study is derived from Robert Dilts (1998) a pioneer in NLP. Jesus like any model is complex. In this study Jesus is seen as divine and human. It is presupposed here that all human beings have divine origin, connection, and the capacity to realize that divinity in their lives. To do so is to actualize their potential as human beings, or in Christian religious terms, to acknowledge and accept themselves as children of God. Jesus is a Preacher, teacher, psychologist, healer, and leader. He has a highly developed mind and consciousness, a precisely defined mission, and a message that is life transforming to those who receive it. Robert Dilts’ model of logical levels (1998) will be utilized in this study to model on the subject Jesus. The logical levels that Dilts identifies are source, identity, beliefs, capabilities, behaviors, and environment (1998). When Jesus preached and counseled he communicated more than words. He conveyed his own spiritual knowledge, consciousness, the spirit of God, and the kingdom reality of God to the people he spoke to. These constituted an inner, experiential reality that he initiated them into. What was real for Jesus became real for them. Jesus did this with large crowds, small groups of disciples, and individuals. This knowledge amounted to a self-knowledge and knowledge of God. When Jesus preached and counseled people were metaphorically thrust up a spiritual developmental ladder towards a higher level of consciousness, the consciousness of God (Wilber and Marion (2011). 11 A Preacher or counselor after the fashion of Jesus is a hierophant who initiates his audience or client into divine knowledge, that is knowledge of God and the reality of God called the Kingdom of God. While preaching was the primary emphasis of Jesus’ ministry (Mark 1:14, Luke 4:43-44), Jesus also healed people (Matthew 4:23-35, Mark 3:9-12, Luke 5:15). The healing Jesus provided was physical, psychological, social, and spiritual and is much like the healing provided in holistic or spiritually oriented counseling (Clinebell, 2011). We will refer to that healing as counseling and psychotherapy as counseling and psychotherapy have healing functions (Clinebell, 2011). Jesus is described as receiving revelations from God such as in his baptism (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22 and John 1:29-34). Characters in the scripture associated with Jesus also receive revelations about him such as in the Transfiguration episode ( Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8, Luke 9:28-36) and the episode where Simon Peter refers to Jesus as Messiah and Son of the Living God (Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 8:27-30). Jesus transmits knowledge and spiritual experiences to members of his audience such as through the Sermon on the Mount ( Matthew 5-7), the Last Supper ( Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:15-20) and Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances (Matthew 28:1-8, Mark 16:1-8, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-13, Matthew 28:9-10, Mark 16: 9-11, Luke 24:10-11, John 20:14-18.
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