A Word from Bob
Recently I started a blog series on Biblical Counseling Word Studies. You can read Post #1 here: Biblical Counseling Word Study #1: Parakaleo—Empathize, Encourage, Exhort, Empower. You can read Post #2 here: Biblical Counseling Word Study #2: Parakletos—The Holy Spirit, Our Gospel-Reminding Counselor.
My next posts in that series will be on the Greek word noutheteo/nouthesia, from which Jay Adams derived his nouthetic counseling model. Before I launch those posts, I thought it would be helpful to provide some historical context and background for Jay Adams’s nouthetic counseling approach.
Noutheteo, Nouthesia, and Nouthetic
Jay Adams chose an English form of the Greek word noutheteo/nouthesia when he launched the modern nouthetic counseling movement. So noutheteo has great significance for anyone interested in biblical counseling.
Noutheteo is the verb form of the word, and is used in the following 8 passages: Acts 20:31; Romans 15:14; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Colossians 1:28; Colossians 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; and 2 Thessalonians 3:15.
Nouthesia is the noun form of the word, and is used in the following 3 passages: 1 Corinthians 10:11; Ephesians 6:4; and Titus 3:10.
“Nouthetic” is the English version of the word as coined by Jay
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