{"id":129133,"date":"2025-11-18T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=129133"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:56:19","slug":"more-biblical-than-just-suffer-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=129133","title":{"rendered":"More Biblical Than Just, \u201cSuffer Well\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Iron-Sharpening-Iron Conversation about \u201cBiblical Sufferology\u201d and \u201cSuffer Well\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>My friend, and biblical counseling colleague, Kevin Carson, recently published a blog called,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/kevincarson.com\/2025\/11\/18\/waiting-well-in-long-term-struggle\/\">Waiting Well in Long-Term Struggle<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Kevin addresses the concern that some of us have about the phrase \u201csuffer well.\u201d I thought I would advance that conversation by interacting with Kevin. Here\u2019s goes\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <strong>My Interaction with Kevin<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the article, Kevin. My eyes were especially draw to your concluding admonition to biblical counselors where you say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cSome people recoil at the phrase \u201csuffer well,\u201d believing it sounds dismissive or insensitive to real pain. Certainly, we must use this encouragement wisely, carefully, and compassionately. Yet we cannot ignore that James calls believers to exactly this \u2013\u00a0<strong>to suffer well<\/strong>. Not stoically, not independently, and not with a fake smile, but with patient endurance anchored in the compassion and mercy of the Lord and motivated by the return of Christ. To withhold this encouragement would be to overlook a clear biblical admonition. Suffering well is not the totality of our counsel, but it is certainly part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on X, when you introduce your post, you lead with these cautions about how we view \u201csuffer well.\u201d You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, we are often great at making long-winded speeches, but horrible at listening long to a sufferer speak.<br \/>\nThe post More Biblical Than Just, \u201cSuffer Well\u201d appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":129139,"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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-129133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-suffering","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bandaid-on-shattered-glass-4.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129133","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=129133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129140,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129133\/revisions\/129140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}