{"id":10715,"date":"2020-01-15T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=10715"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:55:12","slug":"the-case-for-counseling-through-the-written-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=10715","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Counseling Through the Written Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Scott Mehl<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months I&rsquo;ve made the case for why counseling ought to take place in our homes {link}, church offices {link}, and public spaces {link}. I hope that, by now, you&rsquo;ve come to appreciate that counseling doesn&rsquo;t just take one form, but can vary significantly in format, location, and formality. But, I think the formats in which counseling ought to take place may even extend further beyond our expectations than we realize.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a digitized world with digitized communication. While this leads many of us to lament the days of old when people talked &ldquo;face-to-face,&rdquo; nostalgia is a funny thing. It can re-write history in ways that cause us to mis-remember the past. While the rise of digitized communication is a relatively new development, the rise of written communication isn&rsquo;t. There may be a difference between scrawling out a letter in cursive and typing one out by pushing a succession of buttons, but the result is, in many ways, the same.<\/p>\n<p>The case could quite easily be made that the majority of the New Testament consists of biblical counseling in written form. As long as written language has existed among Christians, biblical counseling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Scott Mehl Over the past few months I\u2019ve made the case for why counseling ought to take place in our homes {link}, church offices {link}, and public spaces {link}. I hope that, by now, you\u2019ve come to appreciate that counseling doesn\u2019t just take one form, but can vary significantly in format, location, and formality&#8230;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":10717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[284],"tags":[666,402,32,1555,1556,1557],"class_list":["post-10715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibcd-jim-newheiser","tag-biblical-counselors","tag-blog","tag-counseling","tag-disciplers","tag-hospitality","tag-smartphones","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0e4709328_1448999107_itunes-art-8-913-1.jpg?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10718,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions\/10718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}