{"id":13159,"date":"2020-02-26T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2020-02-26T06:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:45:32","slug":"10-common-mistakes-biblical-counselors-sometimes-make-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=13159","title":{"rendered":"10 Common Mistakes Biblical Counselors Sometimes Make, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0-2019-Biblical-Counseling-Speaking-Truth-in-Love-2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Word from Bob:&nbsp;<\/strong>You&rsquo;re reading Part 1 of a 10-part blog series on <em>10 Mistakes Biblical Counselors Sometimes Make<\/em>. This list is in no particular order of &ldquo;importance.&rdquo; Nor is this list attempting to say everything that could be said about the essence of biblical counseling. For more on biblical counseling theology, see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/writing\/gospel-centered-counseling\/\">Gospel-Centered Counseling<\/a><\/em>. For more on biblical counseling methodology, see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/writing\/gospel-conversations\/\">Gospel-Conversations<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;Even &ldquo;seasoned&rdquo; biblical counselors can make these mistakes. I make these mistakes&mdash;and I&rsquo;ve been providing biblical counseling for 35 years and I&rsquo;ve been equipping biblical counselors for 30 years. So, the title is not meant to be a judgement on a movement. Instead, the title is meant to encourage all of us to continue to grow. I&rsquo;ve even thought about alternative titles such as: <em>10 Helpful Considerations for Every Biblical Counselor<\/em>. Or, <em>10 Questions to Self-Assess My Biblical Counseling<\/em>. Or, <em>10 Ways to Enrich and Mature Our Biblical Counseling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Mistake #1: We Elevate <em>Data Collection <\/em>Above <em>Soul Connection<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The modern biblical counseling movement does a fine job at data collection. We&rsquo;ve been accurately taught to heed the wisdom of Proverbs 18:13 and James 1:19:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He who answers before listening&mdash;that is his folly and his shame&rdquo; (Proverbs 18:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even seasoned biblical counselors can sometimes make these 10 common mistakes. In Part 1, we seek to correct the mistake of elevating data collection above soul connection.<br \/>\nThe post 10 Common Mistakes Biblical Counselors Sometimes Make, Part 1 appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13165,"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":[145,1835,1836,1738,1837],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-biblical-counseling-mistakes","tag-data-collection","tag-empathy","tag-mistakes","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\/2020\/02\/0-2019-Biblical-Counseling-Speaking-Truth-in-Love-300x131-6-1.png?fit=300%2C131&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","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=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13167,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}