A Word from Bob
Three days ago I posted one of my many resource blogs: 46 Biblical Counseling Resources on Trauma and Trauma Care. (The post now has 50 resources, and like most all of my resource posts, I will continue to edit, develop, tweak, and add to it.)
Honestly, I thought a resource post like this would be pretty innocuous (innocent, bland, harmless, inoffensive). I included a wide cross-section of resources from a wide array of biblical counseling groups, schools, and publishers.
Ha! In today’s biblical counseling climate, I should have known better than to think everyone will consider anything harmless.
Within the day, Sean Perron had posted the following blunt response on Twitter/X:
“There is no better example of why we wrote a ‘Call to Clarity’ than this post [by Bob Kellemen]. The confusion here is deep and wide. To label many of these resources as “biblical counseling” demonstrates a fundamentally different definition of the term. It is a strange stew of Christian psychology, biblical counseling, and integration. The only common denominator is that the books are written by Christians and deal with suffering. Beware of eclectic counseling. Sadly, Bob isn’t a biblical counselor, no matter how much
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