The Context
In another post by the folks at First Baptist Jacksonville, this one by Sean Perron, Sean proclaimed,
“I am convinced we need a reset on the term biblical counseling.”
5 Reflections on Resetting the Definition of Biblical Counseling
Sean’s post and his exhortation that we “reset” the term “biblical counseling” got me thinking. Here are a few brief, quick reflections…
1. Who Get’s to Define Biblical Counseling?
Almost two years ago, I addressed this very issue here: Who Gets to Define Biblical Counseling? In this post, I suggested that:
Modern discussions about the modern biblical counseling movement often neglect 1,950 years of church history. We act as if biblical counseling was started in the 1970s by one person in the United States.
My post links to an array of church history resources documenting the long history of biblical counseling—which pre-dates the modern nouthetic counseling movement by millennia.
Not surprisingly, when Sean supports his preferred definitions of biblical counseling he links to resources that highlight the past 50 years.
Please note, I am not against those youthful, fifty-year-old-or-less descriptions. I am simply emphasizing:
Our potential historical ignorance if any of us, myself included, act
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