{"id":64751,"date":"2023-09-05T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=64751"},"modified":"2023-09-05T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:15:15","slug":"6-biblical-counseling-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=64751","title":{"rendered":"6 Biblical Counseling Convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A 16-Word Description of My Model of Biblical Counseling<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>On my Twitter (now known as X) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobKellemen\">profile<\/a>, and on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1706641682951424\/\">Facebook Gospel-Centered Biblical Counseling Group<\/a>, I have the following profile-size, 16-word summary of my convictions about biblical counseling. As biblical counselors we seek to be:<\/p>\n<p>  <em>Gospel-Centered, Theologically-Saturated, Relationship-Focused, Church History-Informed, Research-Aware Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls<\/em>  <strong>A Few Longer Descriptions\u2026<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like a 12-conviction statement of my biblical counseling, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/confessional-statement\/\">Biblical Counseling Coalition Confessional Statement<\/a>. In 2010, I had the honor of facilitating three-dozen biblical counseling leaders, including David Powlison, in a nine-month process of developing ten drafts of the BCC Confessional Statement.<\/p>\n<p>You could also take a look at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2020\/10\/12-biblical-counseling-distinctives\/\">12 Biblical Counseling Distinctives<\/a><\/em>, which is based upon the BCC Confessional Statement.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in my book-size convictions about the <strong>theology<\/strong> of biblical counseling, see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/bookstore\/gospel-centered-counseling-how-christ-changes-lives\/\">Gospel-Centered Counseling: How Christ Changes Lives<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in my book-size convictions about the <strong>methodology<\/strong> of biblical counseling, see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/bookstore\/gospel-conversations\/\">Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Our Focus Today<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Today, I\u2019ll walk us through a summary of each of these six biblical counseling convictions:<\/p>\n<p>  <em>Gospel-Centered<\/em> Biblical Counseling <em>Theologically-Saturated<\/em> Biblical Counseling <em>Relationship-Focused<\/em> Biblical Counseling <em>Church History-Informed<\/em> Biblical Counseling <em>Research-Aware<\/em> Biblical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a biblical counselors, I seek to be a gospel-centered, theologically-saturated, relationship-focused, church history-informed, research-aware soul physician of embodied-souls.<br \/>\nThe post 6 Biblical Counseling Convictions appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":64753,"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":[145,5599],"class_list":["post-64751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-biblical-counseling-convictions","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\/09\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64751","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=64751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64754,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64751\/revisions\/64754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}