A Word from Bob: I posted this “tweet-thread” on Twitter… FYI for non-Twitter users: #BibleCN is a “shorthand” hashtag for Biblical Counseling. It’s used to alert Twitter users that a tweet discusses biblical counseling. Here are 15 tweet-size thoughts about the biblical counseling movement…
Twitter Tweet Thread on #BibleCn
1 A long thread on #BibleCn = the biblical counseling movement. Shared for biblical counselors & for critics of biblical counseling. First, as biblical counselors, let’s be humbly open to learning, growing, & changing.
2 As a #BibleCn movement, we highlight progressive sanctification & self-confrontation. So, it should be natural for us to want to grow & change individually as counselors & as a movement. If we practice what we preach, then we should be open to feedback & even pushback.
3 While the Bible is perfect, we individually & as a corporate #BibleCn “movement” are imperfect. No one person or one movement will ever perfectly corner the market on “truth-for-life.”
4 There’s no need to be defensive when people inside or outside the #BibleCn world challenge us. Let’s humbly live Phil. 1:9-11: praying that our love would abound more & more in knowledge & depth of insight so that we can increasingly discern what is best.
5 Where do we have room for growth? In “Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling, as the subtitle suggests, I address 10 areas for ongoing, continued growth in our thinking about & practice of #BibleCn but those are just starters.
6 Those Christians who do not “self-identify” as #BibleCn are not the enemy. While their approach to people helping may differ from ours, they are godly compassionate Christians.
7 For our critics, first, thank you for challenging us to grow. Please speak truth in love to us as a #BibleCn movement.
8 Second, please realize that we are not a monolithic #BibleCn movement with 1 leader or 1 primary organization. Check out @biblicalcc on Twitter & online for something of the breadth of our movement.
9 Check out @biblicalcc for “The Annual Guide to BC Resources” for over 1,000 books/booklets authored by over several 100 leaders on several 100 topics for Christian living. #BibleCn has a rich perspective.
10 The #BibleCn world is diverse: men, women, young, old, scores of organizations, US, international, multi-ethnic, multi-denominational, etc.
11 Check out @biblicalcc for the Confessional Statement which seeks to summarize 12 core robust Christ-centered, gospel-focused concepts we aspire to as a #BibleCn movement.
12 Now, some summaries. #BibleCn believes that for 2,000 years the church has always been about the business of helping hurting and hardened people find healing & hope in Christ.
13 #BibleCn believes that the Bible has robust, rich, real, raw, relevant compassionate wisdom for daily living.
14 #BibleCn believes in soul care via compassionate sustaining empathy & via Christ-centered healing hope, & believes in spiritual direction via grace-focused reconciling care & via relevant guiding wisdom.
15 #BibleCn believes that Christ calls & the Spirit empowers every Christian to offer one-another soul care & spiritual direction (Rom. 15:14; Eph. 4:11-16; Phil. 1:9-11; 1 Thess. 2:7-12). Done…for now…
