Mark Shaw

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Mark Edward Shaw (born October 12, 1970) is an American ordained minister,[1] nouthetic counselor,[2] addiction counselor,[3] author, public speaker, and seminary instructor. He is the Founder and President of The Addiction Connection and the Director of Counseling at Grace Fellowship Church in Florence, Kentucky.

Early Life and Education

Shaw was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Ronny and Sandra Shaw and was brought up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Mobile, Alabama. His father told him about Jesus at a young age, so he became a follower of Christ. When he was 9, his family moved to Alabama, where he spent the next 35 years of his life.

Shaw graduated from Baker High School in 1988. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with an English minor from the University of South Alabama in 1992. He completed his Master of Science in Education Psychology from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1995.[4]

He discovered leaders in biblical counseling and learned about pastoral care, which gave him a passion for ministry, specifically in addictions counseling. Soon after, he received a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from Birmingham Theological Seminary in 2004.[4] He earned a Doctor of Ministry in Biblical Counseling[4][5][6] from the same seminary in 2008, completing his authored dissertation titled Speaking the Truth in Love in the Local Church. He holds certifications from three different counseling organizations ACBC,[6][7] IABC, and AADAA.[5][8]

Career

Shaw's addiction ministry began in 1991 when he worked in the Mobile mental health system. He also worked as an addiction counselor and the Program Director of a methadone clinic from 1994 to 1998.[2] He served as the Clinical Director of a residential program from 1998 to 2001. In the mid-2000s, he worked briefly at a methadone clinic before becoming the office manager of a church's biblical counseling ministry in Montgomery. He accepted a counselor's position at a church in Birmingham and, concurrently, a senior pastor's role at a local church in a neighboring city.

In 2008, Shaw started a nonprofit ministry, Truth in Love (TIL), a network of biblical counselors and ministries that offer training for helping those struggling with addiction.[5][9][10] With headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, TIL existed to give churches the tools necessary to start up their counseling ministries. During that time, Shaw began writing books. He released his first book in 2008, titled The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective.[11] In 2012, TIL concentrated its mission on addiction counseling, changing its name officially in 2019 to The Addiction Connection (TAC).[9] For the next year, Shaw, along with Shirley Crowder and the leadership of TAC, sought to gather and mobilize a team of leaders to start a commissioning organization for counselors seeking growth in addiction counseling. Thus, the Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor (CABC) process was born.

In 2013, Shaw moved to Lafayette, Indiana, to serve with Faith Church and become the Director of Vision of Hope Residential Treatment Center.[5][8]

In 2018, he became the Director of Counseling at Grace Fellowship Church in Florence, Kentucky.[1][6][9]

In February 2020, he began hosting The Addiction Connection Podcast,[12][13] which aired 100 episodes in 2020.

Shaw teaches several courses, such as the disciple-making program for addicts, Next Steps: Be Transformed, launched in 2020 as a curriculum for addiction leaders to utilize in their programs, churches, or home settings. This curriculum includes 16 months of content taught by Shaw for those seeking biblical and gospel-focused recovery. Another group curriculum taught by Shaw is Family Help for Addiction: A Care Group Study, which gives churches a means to reach out to family members of addicts in their community.

Affiliations

Shaw is a licensed and ordained minister with The Christian and Missionary Alliance. He has been a Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor (CABC) with The Addiction Connection and a Certified Level 2 Biblical Counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors since 2002. He is also a Certified Biblical Counselor for the International Association of Biblical Counselors (IABC), a Certified Addictions and Drug Abuse Consultant Level 2 (CADAC-II)[4][5][6] for the Indiana Counselors Association on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ICAADA) since 2017 (reciprocal with AADAA since 1999). Shaw has been an Internationally Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (ICADC) since 1999.

Publications

Focus Publishing

  • Addiction-Proof Parenting: Biblical Prevention Strategies[13]
  • The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective[5][14]
  • The Heart of Addiction Workbook
  • CrossTalking: A Daily Gospel for Transforming Addicts
  • Divine Intervention: Hope and Help for Families of Addicts[15]
  • Relapse: Biblical Prevention Strategies[16]
  • Strength in Numbers: The Team Approach to Biblical Counseling
  • Hope and Help Through Biblical Counseling
  • Hope and Help for Marriage
  • Hope and Help for Men as Husbands and Fathers
  • Hope and Help for Sexual Temptation
  • Hope and Help for Gambling
  • Hope and Help for Self-Injurers and Cutters
  • Hope and Help for Video Game, TV, & Internet Addiction
  • How Not to Raise an Addict: Biblical Prevention Strategies[17]
  • Understanding Temptation: The War Within Your Heart[18]

Collaborative Publications

  • Co-editor, Paul the Counselor, with William Hines
  • Co-author, Hope and Help for Chronic Illness, with Allison Griffin
  • Co-author, Eating Disorders: Hope for Hungering Souls, with Bethany Spence and Rachel Bailey
  • Co-author, The Heart of Addiction Leader's Guide, with Mary Shaw
  • Co-author, The Pursuit of Perfection, with William Hines
  • Co-author, The Fight of Your Life, with Camille Cates, Sue Liljenberg, and William Hines
  • Contributing co-author, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling, Chapter 21 The Nature of the Biblical Counseling Relationship[4]
  • Co-author, Advent: Meditations for Addicts, with Shirley Crowder
  • Co-author, EASTER: Meditations for Addicts with Shirley Crowder

Translated Publications

  • Romanian: Strength in Numbers: The Team Approach to Biblical Counseling
  • Romanian & Albanian: Hope and Help through Biblical Counseling
  • Arabic: The Heart of Addiction
  • Korean: Addiction-Proof Parenting: Biblical Prevention Strategies
  • Portuguese: Divine Intervention: Hope and Help for Families of Addicts

Personal Life

Shaw is married to Mary, and together they have two sons and two daughters.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Meet Leadership Team | The Addiction Connection" (in en-US). https://www.theaddictionconnection.org/leadership/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A sobering task" (in en). https://wng.org/roundups/a-sobering-task-1617223898. 
  3. ↑ "Pandemic, drug use fuel HIV spread" (in en). https://wng.org/roundups/pandemic-drug-use-fuel-hiv-spread-1619038853. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Addiction-Proof Parenting with Dr. Mark Shaw". https://faithbiblechurch.us/addiction-proof-parenting/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Vcyamerica (2020-06-24). "The Heart of Addiction" (in en-US). https://www.vcyamerica.org/crosstalk/2020/06/24/the-heart-of-addiction-3/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Fallen Soldiers March - Dr. Mark E. Shaw, ACBC Biblical Counselor" (in en-US). http://fallensoldiersmarch.com/dr-mark-shaw/. 
  7. ↑ "Fallen Soldiers March - Examining The Heart of Addiction Biblically" (in en-US). http://fallensoldiersmarch.com/examining-the-heart-of-addiction-biblically/. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Relapse: Biblical Prevention Strategies by Mark E. Shaw" (in en). https://www.biblicalcounselingbooks.com/products/relapse-biblical-prevention-strategies-by-mark-e-shaw. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Brain surgery for addiction?" (in en). https://wng.org/roundups/brain-surgery-for-addiction-1645657349. 
  10. ↑ "Sleeping it off" (in en). https://wng.org/articles/sleeping-it-off-1617296917. 
  11. ↑ "The Heart of Addiction - Association of Certified Biblical Counselors" (in en-US). https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/articles/the-heart-of-addiction-a-biblical-perspective/. 
  12. ↑ "#101 - Through The Gate (Pastor Steve Covington and Dr. Shaw) by The Addiction Connection Podcast" (in en). https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theaddictionconnection/episodes/101---Through-The-Gate-Pastor-Steve-Covington-and-Dr--Shaw-epo9kd. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Addiction-Proof Parenting: Biblical Prevention Strategies Tapa blanda – 25 Septiembre 2010". https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/1885904886/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i18. 
  14. ↑ "The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective Edición Kindle". https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/B00IZO6EMQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1. 
  15. ↑ "Divine Intervention: Hope and Help for Families of Addicts Edición Kindle". https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/B00IZNV5TO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2. 
  16. ↑ "Relapse: Biblical Prevention Strategies Tapa blanda – 26 Julio 2011". https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/1885904916/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i9. 
  17. ↑ "How Not to Raise an Addict: Biblical Prevention Strategies Tapa blanda – 1 Marzo 2017". https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/1936141353/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i14. 
  18. ↑ "Understanding Temptation: The War Within Your Heart Tapa blanda – 10 Octubre 2014". https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/193614123X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i11. 
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