{"id":47133,"date":"2022-04-25T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47133"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:04:12","slug":"a-compassionate-biblical-approach-to-suffering-biblical-sufferology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47133","title":{"rendered":"A Compassionate Biblical Approach to Suffering: \u201cBiblical Sufferology\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I posted (shared my soul): <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2022\/04\/shepherds-please-think-protect-well-please-stop-saying-suffer-well\/\"><em>Shepherds Please Think, \u201cProtect Well.\u201d Please Stop Saying, \u201cSuffer Well.\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I received an overwhelmingly positive response to this post\u2014comments and likes on Twitter, Facebook, via email, private messages, texts, and on my blog. And, I had, by far, more views of this post than anything I have ever posted (and I\u2019ve posted over 2,500 blogs).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there are those who disagreed with my post who simply chose not to comment.<\/p>\n<p>And a couple of people graciously \u201cpushed back\u201d saying that \u201csuffer well\u201d can be a beneficial term when used well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Agreed\u2014<em>if used well<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a future post or several future posts, I may share more of my nuanced thoughts on \u201csuffering well\u201d and on biblical \u201csufferology\u201d\u2014biblical principles related to suffering.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s brief post:<\/p>\n<p>  I\u2019ll simply share a bit about \u201cnuance.\u201d   Then I\u2019ll share several resources where I provide additional (nuanced) thinking on suffering.  <strong>Nuance<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve read any of my 2,500+ blogs, if you\u2019ve read any of my over 100 published articles, if you\u2019ve read any of my 23 books and booklets, then you know that \u201cnuance\u201d is my middle name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Call me Robert William <em>Nuance <\/em>Kellemen!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be equipped with 7 resources for \u201cbiblical sufferology\u201d\u2014what the Bible teaches about ministering to the suffering and about responding to suffering.<br \/>\nThe post A Compassionate Biblical Approach to Suffering: \u201cBiblical Sufferology\u201d appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47135,"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":[233,4835],"class_list":["post-47133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-suffering","tag-sufferology","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\/2022\/04\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-6.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47133","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=47133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47136,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47133\/revisions\/47136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}