{"id":80440,"date":"2024-07-27T05:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=80440"},"modified":"2024-07-27T05:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:26:01","slug":"2-ways-of-thinking-about-our-biblical-counseling-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=80440","title":{"rendered":"2 Ways of Thinking About Our Biblical Counseling Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Big Idea<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s post, we learn 3 central questions we need to address in order to richly answer the question, &#8220;Who am I as a biblical counselor?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <strong>A Fun, Popular Post<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I posted, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/07\/star-wars-star-trek-and-biblical-counseling\/\">Star Wars, Star Trek, and Biblical Counseling<\/a><\/em>. It was a <em>fun<\/em> post to write.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google analytics and to social media interactions, it was a <em>popular <\/em>post to read. Talking about our biblical counseling DNA and historical lineage is fun. It\u2019s an \u201ceasy\u201d way to self-identify the <em>influences<\/em> on my approach to biblical counseling.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>There\u2019s More to Our Biblical Counseling Identity<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Please consider today\u2019s post something of an <em>addendum<\/em> to yesterday\u2019s post. I want to expand on how we identify our approach to biblical counseling.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask me, \u201cWho is Bob Kellemen?\u201d I\u2019m not likely to only answer with,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m primarily Romanian on my father\u2019s side and primarily English-Irish on my mother\u2019s side.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unless I\u2019m at a meeting of a genealogy society, that\u2019s not the primary way we tend to think about our identity. It\u2019s a fun way. It\u2019s one way. But it really doesn\u2019t get at, \u201cWho am I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it gets at, \u201cWhat is my ancestry\/lineage\/DNA\/biological\/genealogical history?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, when someone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn 3 central questions you need to address in order to richly answer the question, &#8220;Who am I as a biblical counselor?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post 2 Ways of Thinking About Our Biblical Counseling Identity appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":80447,"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],"class_list":["post-80440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-biblical-counseling","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\/07\/2024-Who-Am-I-5.jpg?fit=500%2C313&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80440","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=80440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80448,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80440\/revisions\/80448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}