{"id":75826,"date":"2024-05-01T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=75826"},"modified":"2024-05-01T01:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T06:06:58","slug":"it-would-be-amusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=75826","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be Amusing . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>. . . <\/strong>If it weren\u2019t so shockingly sad!<\/p>\n<p>These days a spate of books and\/or articles declaring that we are in the second generation of biblical (nouthetic) counseling has been appearing. These, typically, declare that we have moved on from earlier concepts and approaches and now have opted for more kindly and thoughtful views. What would be amusing, if it were not so sad, is that those who are labeled with \u201cfirst generation\u201d thinking have, themselves, moved beyond their earlier works while their critics have not.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csad\u201d part about this is that they so severely misrepresent the situation for people who are just now awakening to the existence of a biblical counseling movement.<\/p>\n<p>Take one example. There is in more than one place a decrying of the supposed \u201cfact \u201c that no notice is taken of the idea that truth may be received from other sources than the Bible. Yet, some time ago, for instance, I wrote a book entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/nouthetic.org\/product\/sanctification-and-counseling-growing-by-grace\/\"><em><strong>Is All Truth God\u2019s Truth? <\/strong><\/em><\/a>based on Gaebelein\u2019s famous statement. This is but one instance of failure to use all the sources available.<\/p>\n<p>This sad sort of scholarship that avoids sources and then complains about the lack of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . If it weren\u2019t so shockingly sad! These days a spate of books and\/or articles declaring that we are in the second generation of biblical (nouthetic) counseling has been appearing. These, typically, declare that we have moved on from earlier concepts and approaches and now have opted for more kindly and thoughtful views. &#8230;<br \/>\nThe post It Would Be Amusing . . . appeared first on Institute for Nouthetic Studies | Biblical Counseling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75828,"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":[285],"tags":[58,4426,4427,447,4428,145,1439,32,884,1895,3261,5886,837],"class_list":["post-75826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-nouthetic-studies-jay-adams","tag-acbc","tag-acbc-fundamentals","tag-acbc-training","tag-bible","tag-biblical","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-biblical-counseling-movement","tag-counseling","tag-counseling-training","tag-nouthetic","tag-nouthetic-counseling","tag-second-generation-biblical-counselor","tag-sufficiency-of-scripture","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\/05\/cropped-Favicon-32x32-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75826","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75829,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75826\/revisions\/75829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}