{"id":119978,"date":"2025-04-18T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119978"},"modified":"2025-04-18T03:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:08:57","slug":"biblical-counseling-and-the-dutch-reformed-the-history-of-the-irbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119978","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Counseling and the Dutch Reformed \u2013 The History of the IRBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: Our April 2025 mini&#x2d;series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses advancements in biblical counseling. In this final article, Jared Poulton and Jeff Doll reflect on the creation of the Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling. In other contributions to the series, Jeremy Oliver discusses opportunities for ministering to the aging and elderly, and Dave Deuel shares about the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2025\/04\/18\/biblical-counseling-and-the-dutch-reformed-the-history-of-the-irbc\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, two elders of Cornerstone United Reformed Church in Hudsonville, Michigan, reached out to pastor Jeff Doll with a significant concern. As they reflected upon their labors among their respective elder districts, both men felt underequipped to shepherd the souls under their care. They needed help. Dr. Doll led the two elders into the empty sanctuary to ask the Lord for wisdom in addressing this need. In that time of prayer, God planted the initial seeds of the Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling (IRBC). Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":119980,"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":[279],"tags":[173,955,5361,708,2185],"class_list":["post-119978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-history-of-biblical-counseling","tag-local-church-ministry","tag-mini-series","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-people-who-train-caregivers","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\/04\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-7.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119978","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\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119981,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119978\/revisions\/119981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}