A Word from Bob
Throughout this post, I’ll use the phrase “nouthetic biblical counseling” because it ties in with someone nouthetically confronting biblical counseling as a movement.
However, true biblical counseling is both parakaletic and nouthetic. We offer parakaletic biblical counseling to comfort the suffering, and we offer nouthetic biblical counseling to care-front those who are struggling with sin. In summary:
We provide soul care for saints who face suffering and battle against sin on our sanctification journey.
As Frank Lake said in the 1960s:
“Pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered as well as with the sins we have committed.”
The Twitter Background
When I visited Twitter this weekend, I found a lengthy thread confronting biblical counseling. Here’s the first of a long series of tweets:
“A Christian counseling methodology that only accounts for people as sinners and not also as sinned against is woefully incompetent and deleterious to souls. And yet, the disturbing irony is that such methodologies get the stamp of approval of being ‘biblical counseling.’”
This tweet thread picked up steam, and others joined in with their critiques of biblical counseling.
Potential Defensive Responses
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