{"id":56697,"date":"2023-01-20T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=56697"},"modified":"2023-01-20T03:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:03:10","slug":"should-i-care-what-others-think-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=56697","title":{"rendered":"Should I Care What Others Think of Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini-series on the Grace and Truth blog addresses the issue of fear of man. In this final article, Joe Keller explores the question of whether we should care what other people think of us. In other contributions to the series, Brady Goodwin considers counseling courage over fear in our speech with others, and Gary Hallquist addresses counseling spouses who are afraid of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/01\/20\/should-i-care-what-others-think-of-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a certain extent, everyone cares about what others think of them. Even if you say you don\u2019t care, you care. In fact, there is a special category for those who completely don\u2019t care about others\u2014they\u2019re called sociopaths. I hope you are not one of them. The Bible reveals that God has designed us as relational beings that do not flourish in isolation (Gen. 1:26-27; Eccl. 4:9-12; Eph. 2:14-21). The community we enjoy as the people of God is not an afterthought in the unfolding plan of redemption (Rom. 12:3-8; 1 Cor. 12:12-31; Heb. 10:24-25;). People bring help and insight into how we see ourselves; we are created to journey together in the pursuit of holiness (Prov. 12:15; Heb. 3:12-13; 1 Thess. 5:14). Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":56699,"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":[279],"tags":[872,734,449],"class_list":["post-56697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-fear-of-man","tag-fear-worry","tag-relationships","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\/2023\/01\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-10.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56697","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56700,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56697\/revisions\/56700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}