{"id":70377,"date":"2024-01-19T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70377"},"modified":"2024-01-19T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T23:42:06","slug":"buzz-words-and-humble-gracious-discernment-in-biblical-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70377","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBuzz Words\u201d and Humble, Gracious Discernment in Biblical Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buzz Words and Biblical Discernment<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was alerted to a public discussion in a Facebook group associated with nouthetic counseling. The thread began when a pastor shared a genuine concern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to waste time reading or listening to unhelpful material, I&#8217;m always asking the question: \u201cIs this an integrationist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A nouthetic biblical counseling leader responded twice in the thread. First, he shared,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe buzz words I listen for these days are \u2018holistic\u2019 and \u2018clinically-informed biblical counseling.\u2019 I hope we can start a discussion about this on this page soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He developed his thinking further in his second response.<\/p>\n<p>He first noted the re-release of Jay Adams\u2019s work <em>Call to Discernment<\/em>, and encouraged those in the group to read the book. Good counsel. He also shared that he did not want to tell people what to believe, but wanted to help people to think biblically\/discerningly. Again, good counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Then he once again noted his concern about buzz words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cPlease listen for words like clinically informed, and holistic. These words have meanings and implications. I would not use the word holistic to describe my counseling. This is not because I don\u2019t care about the body. I certainly do. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s give fellow biblical counselors a gracious benefit of the doubt by reading what they actually say, without assuming that their use of a \u201cbuzz word\u201d means they are engaged in \u201cintegration.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post \u201cBuzz Words\u201d and Humble, Gracious Discernment in Biblical Counseling appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70379,"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":[5731,5594],"class_list":["post-70377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-buzz-words","tag-integration","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\/2024\/01\/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\/70377","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=70377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70380,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70377\/revisions\/70380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}