{"id":28056,"date":"2020-12-08T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=28056"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:04:05","slug":"transition-moving-from-one-counseling-ministry-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=28056","title":{"rendered":"Transition: Moving from One Counseling Ministry to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBut\u00a0I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may\u00a0finish my course and\u00a0the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to\u00a0testify solemnly of the gospel of\u00a0the grace of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 <em>\u2014Acts 20:24<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was introduced to biblical counseling in the late 1970\u2019s when our pastor, Bill Goode, started training lay persons. After taking the Biblical Counseling Training Class and getting some experience, Pastor Goode would occasionally ask me and sometimes both my wife, Rita and I together, to take a counseling case. I was not retired then so my time was somewhat limited.<\/p>\n<p>After I retired, I heard that the waiting list of persons seeking counseling was getting quite long. So, I told Doc Smith that I was available if needed. He said there was a need and they would appreciate my help, but they liked to tell counselees that all of our counselors were Certified by the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (NANC)<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> or were working on certification. I told Doc, tongue-in-cheek, that I didn\u2019t want to go back to college. Nevertheless, I began working on certification.<\/p>\n<p>That year I began observing Doc\u2019s cases as he mentored me. After a while he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut\u00a0I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may\u00a0finish my course and\u00a0the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to\u00a0testify solemnly of the gospel of\u00a0the grace of God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014Acts 20:24 I was introduced to biblical counseling in the late 1970\u2019s when our pastor, Bill Goode, started&#8230; read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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":[275],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-28056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-biblical-counseling-ministry-fbcm","tag-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28059,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056\/revisions\/28059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}