{"id":31214,"date":"2021-02-28T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=31214"},"modified":"2021-02-28T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T04:02:52","slug":"as-a-nouthetic-biblical-counselor-am-i-open-to-nouthetic-confrontation-of-the-biblical-counseling-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=31214","title":{"rendered":"As a Nouthetic Biblical Counselor, Am I Open to Nouthetic Confrontation of the Biblical Counseling Movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Deflection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Throughout this post, I\u2019ll use the phrase \u201cnouthetic biblical counseling\u201d because it ties in with someone nouthetically confronting biblical counseling as a movement.<\/p>\n<p>However, true biblical counseling is both <em>parakaletic<\/em> and <em>nouthetic<\/em>. We offer <em>parakaletic <\/em>biblical counseling to comfort the suffering, and we offer <em>nouthetic<\/em> biblical counseling to care-front those who are struggling with sin. In summary:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We provide <em>soul<\/em> care for <em>saints<\/em> who face <em>suffering<\/em> and battle against <em>sin<\/em> on our <em>sanctification<\/em> journey. <\/p>\n<p>As Frank Lake said in the 1960s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cPastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered as well as with the sins we have committed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Twitter Background<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>When I visited Twitter this weekend, I found a lengthy thread confronting biblical counseling. Here\u2019s the first of a long series of tweets:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cA Christian counseling methodology that only accounts for people as sinners and not also as sinned against is woefully incompetent and deleterious to souls. And yet, the disturbing irony is that such methodologies get the stamp of approval of being \u2018biblical counseling.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This tweet thread picked up steam, and others joined in with their critiques of biblical counseling.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Potential Defensive Responses<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>For<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As biblical counselors, we share loving challenges with our counselees; are we as open to receiving loving challenge about our counseling?<br \/>\nThe post As a Nouthetic Biblical Counselor, Am I Open to Nouthetic Confrontation of the Biblical Counseling Movement? appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31221,"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":[3596,145,1895],"class_list":["post-31214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-b","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-nouthetic","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\/2021\/02\/Deflection-768x439-2-1.jpg?fit=768%2C439&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214","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=31214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31222,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions\/31222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}