A Provocative Facebook Post
Recently, Pastor Mark Williams, who oversees a nouthetic counseling site on Facebook, posted the following opinion on his nouthetic site and on his personal Facebook page.
“Don’t call yourself a biblical counselor if you do not believe the simple truth that God’s Word provides us with all that we need for soul care. To take on that title and then integrate humanistic philosophies and theories into your methodology gives people a false view of what biblical counseling is supposed to be. If you do not want to stick with the Bible, why would you want to call yourself a biblical counselor in the first place?”
Mark knows his audience well. He received a lot of brief, positive replies such as, “Preach!” “Amen!” “Truth!”
Responding to a Perceived Invitation
Mark’s comments include a question. Perhaps it was a rhetorical question, perhaps an invitational question.
I’ll be taking it as invitational and interact with Mark’s post.
I Agree…in Part…and I Have Six Follow-Up Questions
Mark and I would agree about the dangers of integrating humanistic philosophies and theories into our prescriptive model of counseling. In fact, everyone I know who claims the title of “biblical counselor”
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