{"id":19500,"date":"2020-06-15T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=19500"},"modified":"2020-06-15T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:37:29","slug":"25-definitions-of-biblical-counseling-in-25-words-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=19500","title":{"rendered":"25 Definitions of Biblical Counseling: In 25-Words-Or-Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0-0-2020-25-BC-Definitions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I teach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/mabc\">Faith Bible Seminary<\/a> course <em>BC 611&mdash;Biblical Counseling Lab<\/em>, I ask my students to craft a 25-word-or-less response to the question:<\/p>\n<p><em>What makes biblical counseling truly biblical?<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;re given about 10 minutes to develop this, so it&rsquo;s not their definitive answer, but their working description. I&rsquo;ve collated responses from a couple recent lab groups. With their permission, I&rsquo;m sharing (in no particular order) their descriptions for your consideration.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>What Makes Biblical Counseling Truly Biblical?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Response #1<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biblical counseling involves lovingly journeying with one another as we relate the whole gospel story to the whole person&rsquo;s whole story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Response #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biblical counseling is believers in community connecting intimately, while drawing near to God&rsquo;s heart to practically apply biblical truth to our everyday lives.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Response #3<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biblical counseling is graciously and compassionately applying the Word of God together to the challenges of life for the purpose of heart change.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Response #4<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biblical counseling is the Christ-centered, Word-based, gospel-focused, church-embedded, Spirit-dependent, progressive sanctification ministry of loving comprehensive soul care\/spiritual direction addressing suffering\/sin heart issues.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Response #5 (Notice the Acronym &ldquo;Counseling&rdquo;)<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong>hristians with<\/p>\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>ne another,<\/p>\n<p><strong>U<\/strong>nderstanding the<\/p>\n<p><strong>N<\/strong>uanced ministry of<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>cripture and<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>mpathy,<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>eading to<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>ntentional, Incarnational ministry,<\/p>\n<p><strong>N<\/strong>ew life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had 25-words-or-less, and 10-minutes-or-less, how would you answer the question: What makes biblical counseling truly biblical?<br \/>\nThe post 25 Definitions of Biblical Counseling: In 25-Words-Or-Less appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19507,"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":[145,2532],"class_list":["post-19500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-faith-bible-seminary","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\/06\/0-0-2020-25-BC-Definitions-300x118-2-1.jpg?fit=300%2C118&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19500","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=19500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19509,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19500\/revisions\/19509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}