{"id":54829,"date":"2022-11-29T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=54829"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:36:00","slug":"ponderings-about-being-a-____-informed-biblical-counselor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=54829","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings About Being a \u201c____-Informed Biblical Counselor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted an 18-tweet thread on Twitter about being a \u201c____-informed biblical counselor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know what that means\u2026or if you do\u2026keep reading for some of my reflections and ponderings on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that Twitter limits how many characters\/letters can be in each tweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Twitter Tweet Thread<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweet 1: <\/strong>A long #BibleCn thread on being \u201can informed biblical counselor.\u201d For a detailed discussion of this topic\u2014related to counseling and sexual abuse\u2014see <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Theologically-Informed-Approach-to-Sexual-Abuse-Counseling-PDF.pdf\">https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Theologically-Informed-Approach-to-Sexual-Abuse-Counseling-PDF.pdf<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/A-Theologically-Informed-Approach-to-Sexual-Abuse-Counseling-PDF.pdf\">A Theologically-Informed Approach to Sexual Abuse Counseling: Implementing the Hermeneutical Spiral<\/a>.\u201d 1\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweet 2\u201d <\/strong>In #BibleCn these days, there\u2019s some level of controversy over the issue of being a \u201chyphenated-biblical counselor.\u201d That is, being a: \u201c____-informed-biblical counselor. Perhaps it\u2019s a \u201ctrauma-informed BCer.\u201d Or \u201ca neuroscience-informed BCer.\u201d Let\u2019s ponder this together. 2\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweet 3: <\/strong>Defining what we mean is vital. It\u2019s also vital to describe how we do what we mean. Let\u2019s take the topic of a being a #BibleCn who is informed about sexual abuse. What information do we need? Where do we find it? How do we evaluate it? How do we implement it? 3\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweet 4: <\/strong>My Primary Premise (in 2 Tweets): Sexual abuse-informed <span data-offset-key=\"dkqoq-1-0\">#BibleCn<span data-offset-key=\"dkqoq-2-0\"> must start with\u2026the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As biblical counselors, we seek to be richly biblically-theologically-saturated while secondarily being shrewdly, discerningly research-informed.<br \/>\nThe post Ponderings About Being a \u201c____-Informed Biblical Counselor\u201d appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":54831,"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":[145,3803,2215],"class_list":["post-54829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-research","tag-twitter","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\/11\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829","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=54829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54832,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829\/revisions\/54832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}