{"id":120547,"date":"2025-05-04T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120547"},"modified":"2025-05-04T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:24:36","slug":"similarities-and-differences-between-the-abc-and-the-acbc-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120547","title":{"rendered":"Similarities and Differences Between the ABC and the ACBC Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Guest Post by Dr. Tim Allchin<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading the first of a series of posts about the recent Association of Biblical Counselors (<a href=\"https:\/\/christiancounseling.com\/\">ABC<\/a>) 2025 Conference: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calledtocounsel.com\/\">Called to Counsel<\/a><\/em>. On Facebook and X\/Twitter, I put out this call:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Did you attend the ABC <em>Called to Counsel <\/em>Conference? Would you like to share a public testimony that I could post at RPM Ministries?<\/p>\n<p>Several people have already responded. The first is <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselingcenter.org\/team-bios\/#tim\">Dr. Tim Allchin<\/a>, who leads <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselingcenter.org\/\">The Biblical Counseling Center<\/a>, which was launched thirty-five years ago by ACBC Fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselingcenter.org\/team-bios\/#ron\">Dr. Ron Allchin<\/a>. See below for Tim\u2019s bio.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a> Tim labeled his response: <em>Similarities Between the ACBC and ABC Conference<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Introduction (by Tim Allchin)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, we (The Biblical Counseling Center) began receiving more frequent questions from students about the Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC) and their certification process. Over the past three years, we\u2019ve sent some of our Biblical Counseling Center counselors to explore ABC, and this year I was able to attend their conference for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Since I attended both the ACBC and ABC conferences this past year, I want to share a few reflections on the\u00a0<strong>similarities and differences<\/strong>\u00a0between these two major voices in the biblical counseling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tim Allchin shares his thoughts on similarities and differences between the ABC and ACBC conferences.<br \/>\nThe post Similarities and Differences Between the ABC and the ACBC Conferences appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":120555,"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":[2395,145],"class_list":["post-120547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-association-of-biblical-counselors","tag-biblical-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\/05\/2025-ABC-Called-to-Counsel-4.jpg?fit=600%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120547","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=120547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120556,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120547\/revisions\/120556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}