{"id":120879,"date":"2025-05-10T19:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120879"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:55:42","slug":"the-2025-abc-called-to-counsel-conference-what-is-all-the-fuss-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120879","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: What Is All the Fuss About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Guest Post by Dan Brewer<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading Part 5 in a blog mini-series of guest post by biblical counselors who attended the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/christiancounseling.com\/\">Association of Biblical Counselors<\/a> (ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calledtocounsel.com\/\"><em>Called to Counsel<\/em><\/a> Conference. 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>  The first post was by Dr. Tim Allchin. You can read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/05\/abc-conference-2025\/\"><em>Similarities and Differences Between the ABC and the ACBC Conferences<\/em><\/a>.   The second post was by ACBC Certified biblical counselor Sarah Puebla. You can read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/05\/abc-christ-centered\/\"><em>The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: Christ-Centered Truth for Life<\/em><\/a>.   The third post was by Rusty Dawson. You can read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/05\/2025-abc-speak-the-truth-in-love\/\"><em>The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: Speaking the Truth in Love<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>   The fourth post we by Brooke Shepherd. You can read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/05\/2025-abc-grace-and-truth\/\"><em>The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: Grace and Truth<\/em><\/a>.  <strong>Meet Dan<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post is by Dan Brewer. Dan holds a B.A. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from Faith Bible Seminary, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI chose to attend the ABC conference this year because I wanted to see first-hand what all the fuss is about.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: What Is All the Fuss About? appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":120889,"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],"class_list":["post-120879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-association-of-biblical-counselors","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-17-1.jpg?fit=600%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120879","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=120879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120890,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120879\/revisions\/120890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}