{"id":116222,"date":"2025-01-21T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116222"},"modified":"2025-01-21T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:25:52","slug":"an-update-a-biblical-counseling-reconciliation-summit-sadly-not-likely-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116222","title":{"rendered":"An Update: A Biblical Counseling Reconciliation Summit\u2014Sadly, Not Likely to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Your Request for an Update<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Many of you have asked me if there has been any progress toward a face-to-face meeting of biblical counseling leaders in order to address current divisions in the biblical counseling family.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my update\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <strong>December 1, 2024<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>On December 1, 2024, after privately reaching out to many biblical counseling leaders, I published a public plea, which I called:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/12\/bc-conciliation-summit\/\">A Proposal: A Biblical Counseling Conciliation Summit<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In my public proposal\/plea, I outlined the current \u201cfamily divisions\u201d within the modern biblical counseling movement, starting more recently with Heath Lambert\u2019s series of posts on \u201czombie-infected, neo-integrationist, false priest, so-called biblical counselors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the divisions in the biblical counseling family, here was my recommendation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I suggest a gathering of biblical counseling leaders for a moderated face-to-face meeting to discuss current \u00a0concerns and conflicts in the biblical counseling movement.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>An Update<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>If you review my post, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/12\/bc-conciliation-summit\/\">A Proposal: A Biblical Counseling Conciliation Summit<\/a><\/em>, you\u2019ll see that I outlined three groups.<\/p>\n<p>  Group A: Consisting of biblical counselors accusing other biblical counselors of being zombie-infected.   Group B: Biblical counselors who have been accused of being zombie-infected.   Group C: A group of biblical counseling leaders and evangelical Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a brief update on a proposed moderated meeting to reconcile factions within the biblical counseling family.<br \/>\nThe post An Update: A Biblical Counseling Reconciliation Summit\u2014Sadly, Not Likely to Happen appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":116228,"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":[6],"tags":[1378],"class_list":["post-116222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-conflict-resolution","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\/2025\/01\/Conciliation-4.jpg?fit=509%2C339&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116222","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116229,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116222\/revisions\/116229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}