{"id":5234,"date":"2019-09-04T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2019-10-18T22:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T22:39:54","slug":"the-case-for-counseling-in-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=5234","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Counseling in Your Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Scott Mehl<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whenever someone reaches out to meet with you, whether it&rsquo;s a friend who sends you a text, or a church member who has asked the church staff for someone to talk to, there are all sorts of initial questions you might have.&nbsp; You&rsquo;ll probably want to have a general idea of what they&rsquo;d like to talk about. (There&rsquo;s nothing I hate more than someone asking, &ldquo;Can we talk?&rdquo; and then having to wait days to find out why!)&nbsp; You&rsquo;ll probably have to look at your calendar to figure out when you could meet.&nbsp; But one of the most basic questions, that we sometimes have a hard time with is: &ldquo;Where should we meet?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One reason this can be such a difficult question is that Scripture is essentially silent on it.&nbsp; In addition, the culture we live in is so different than the biblical culture, it&rsquo;s even hard to glean much from the examples we find in God&rsquo;s word.&nbsp; Public parks, coffee shops, and church offices simply don&rsquo;t appear on the pages of Scripture.&nbsp; So where do we start?<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;d like to suggest that, while there are lots of good places to meet with and counsel one another<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Scott Mehl Whenever someone reaches out to meet with you, whether it\u2019s a friend who sends you a text, or a church member who has asked the church staff for someone to talk to, there are all sorts of initial questions you might have.\u00a0 You\u2019ll probably want to have a general idea of what&#8230; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":5236,"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":[284],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibcd-jim-newheiser","tag-blog","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\/2019\/09\/0e4709328_1448999107_itunes-art-8-913-3.jpg?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5237,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}