Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times
You’re reading Part 6 in an ongoing RPM Ministries blog mini-series on Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times: The Ancient Paths of Soul Care. In this series:
We’re examining ancient, historical Christian soul care to see what our 50-year-young modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement can learn from the ancient paths of 2,000 years of church history.
Here are links to our previous posts in this blog mini-series:
Part 1: 3 Books on Biblical Counseling in Church History: A Treasure Hunt. Part 2: 17 Resources on the History of Pastoral Counseling, Soul Care, and Biblical Counseling. Part 3: What Is “Historic,” “Classic” Biblical Counseling? Part 4: What Can Modern Biblical Counselors Learn from Historical Soul Care? Part 5: Lingering in Lament: Life Lessons from Church History. “Honey, I Shrunk the Pie!”
My title for today’s post is meant to provoke us to think. The title is not meant to make us quit being biblical counselors. The title is meant to expand our biblical/historical understanding of our one-another calling.
Here’s my biblical/historical premise, point-by-point:
Without realizing it, we are so integrated into our secular therapy culture and worldview that we turn every ministry encounter into counseling
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