{"id":121170,"date":"2025-05-16T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121170"},"modified":"2025-05-16T05:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:25:48","slug":"8-called-to-counsel-testimonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121170","title":{"rendered":"8 Called to Counsel Testimonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Called to Counsel<\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>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>I received eight responses, and over the past few weeks I posted an 8-part blog mini-series of guests posts 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.<\/p>\n<p>For a free PDF 21-page PDF version of all eight post, go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-ABC-Called-to-Counsel-Testimonies.pdf\"><em>The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: Eight Testimonies<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Eight Testimonies<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Here are links to the eight guest posts. Each link includes the guest author\u2019s name, the title of their post, and a quote collated from the guest author\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  Tim Allchin: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/05\/abc-conference-2025\/\"><em>Similarities and Differences Between the ABC and the ACBC Conferences<\/em><\/a>. \u201cBoth ACB and ACBC are committed to the sufficiency of Scripture and the centrality of Christ in counseling.\u201d Sarah Puebla: <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>. \u201cThe ABC conference dove into the deep water of theology and Christ-centered teaching that builds us up\u2014taking biblical truths and applying them to our lives and ministries.\u201d   Rusty Dawson:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 ABC Conference: Christ-centered, theologically-rich, and sufficiency-focused equipping to speak God\u2019s truth in loving compassion.<br \/>\nThe post 8 Called to Counsel Testimonies appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":121177,"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-121170","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-33-1.jpg?fit=600%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170","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=121170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121178,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170\/revisions\/121178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}