{"id":118535,"date":"2025-03-14T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118535"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:55:45","slug":"modern-biblical-counseling-is-a-shrunken-version-of-historical-pastoral-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118535","title":{"rendered":"Modern Biblical Counseling Is a Shrunken Version of Historical Pastoral Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading Part 6 in an ongoing RPM Ministries blog mini-series on\u00a0<em>Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times: The Ancient Paths of Soul Care<\/em>. In this series:<\/p>\n<p>  We\u2019re examining ancient, historical Christian soul care to see what our 50-year-young modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement can learn from the ancient paths of 2,000 years of church history.  <\/p>\n<p>Here are links to our previous posts in this blog mini-series:<\/p>\n<p>  Part 1:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2023\/01\/3-books-on-biblical-counseling-in-church-history-a-treasure-hunt\/\"><em>3 Books on Biblical Counseling in Church History: A Treasure Hunt<\/em><\/a>. Part 2:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/09\/17-soul-care-resources\/\"><em>17 Resources on the History of Pastoral Counseling, Soul Care, and Biblical Counseling<\/em><\/a>. Part 3:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/01\/historic-classic-bc\/\"><em>What Is \u201cHistoric,\u201d \u201cClassic\u201d Biblical Counseling?<\/em><\/a> Part 4:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/03\/modern-bc-ancient-pc\/\">What Can Modern Biblical Counselors Learn from Historical Soul Care?<\/a><\/em> Part 5: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/03\/lingering-in-lament\/\">Lingering in Lament: Life Lessons from Church History<\/a><\/em>.  <strong>\u201cHoney, I Shrunk the Pie!\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>My title for today\u2019s post is meant to provoke us to think. The title is <em>not <\/em>meant to make us quit being biblical counselors. The title is meant to expand our biblical\/historical understanding of our one-another calling.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my biblical\/historical premise, point-by-point:<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Without realizing it, we are so integrated into our secular therapy culture and worldview that we turn every ministry encounter into counseling<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biblical counseling shrinks when we think like shrinks! Historical pastoral care grows our vision as we think and act like the Good Shepherd.<br \/>\nThe post Modern Biblical Counseling Is a Shrunken Version of Historical Pastoral Care appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":118549,"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":[454,4009],"class_list":["post-118535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-pastoral-care","tag-pastoral-counseling","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\/03\/Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Kids-12.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118535","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=118535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118550,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118535\/revisions\/118550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}