I Love History
I love history. I’ve written three books on the history of Christian soul care. For a quarter-century, I taught the seminary course: The History of Christian Soul Care. If I hadn’t become a pastor-professor-biblical counselor, perhaps I would have been a high school history teacher. I love history.
Normally, I don’t write about current history, or my own history, but today is different. By God’s grace, many people have benefited from and use the Biblical Counseling Coalition’s Confessional Statement. In 2010, as the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, I had the honor of facilitating the process of developing the BCC Confessional Statement (CS). (Here’s a link to the PDF version.) Here’s my behind-the-scene look at the collegial process that led to the BCC CS.
Reviewing the First-Hand History
Early this morning, I spent several hours scouring through the history of our development of the BCC CS. We spent eight months developing ten drafts, with a core team of six members, and a feedback team of fifty biblical counseling leaders, along with consultation from several dozen Evangelical theologians, seminary professors, and pastors, and with feedback from lay and pastoral biblical counselors from around the world.
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