{"id":31421,"date":"2021-03-05T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=31421"},"modified":"2021-03-05T06:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:09:56","slug":"the-relationship-between-scriptural-sufficiency-and-counselor-competency-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=31421","title":{"rendered":"The Relationship Between Scriptural Sufficiency and Counselor Competency, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word From Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Amazon-Consider-Your-Counsel-1.jpg\"><\/a>You\u2019re reading Part 1 of a two-part blog mini-series on scriptural sufficiency and counselor competency. Here\u2019s the question we\u2019re addressing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWhile Scripture is sufficient to provide wisdom for every soul issue, does that mean that every biblical counselor is competent to address every soul issue?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Part 1, we define our terms: sufficiency of Scripture and counselor competency. In Part 2, we share how to assess our competency and how to assure that competent help is provided for our counselees.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve developed this two-part series from my upcoming book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/store\/consider-your-counsel-addressing-ten-mistakes-in-our-biblical-counseling\/\">Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling<\/a><\/em>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/store\/consider-your-counsel-addressing-ten-mistakes-in-our-biblical-counseling\/\">pre-order your copy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>A Real Life Issue<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I was recently contacted by a lay biblical counselor (let\u2019s call him Jim) who was just beginning his MA degree in Biblical Counseling. Jim was approached by a man who was hearing voices, among several other concerns. Jim explained:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cBob, I feel out of my league. I\u2019m a rookie counselor at best. But I keep hearing that since the Scriptures are sufficient for all soul issues, therefore every Christian is a competent biblical counselor. The implication I feel like I\u2019m hearing is that since the Scriptures are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile Scripture is sufficient to provide wisdom for every soul issue, does that mean that every biblical counselor is competent to address every soul issue?\u201d<br \/>\nThe post The Relationship Between Scriptural Sufficiency and Counselor Competency, Part 1 appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31426,"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":[2024,837],"class_list":["post-31421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-counselor-competency","tag-sufficiency-of-scripture","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\/03\/Amazon-Consider-Your-Counsel-1-1.jpg?fit=324%2C499&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421","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=31421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31427,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions\/31427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}