Use Your Imagination  

In the spirit of positive, iron-sharpening-iron interactions in the biblical counseling world, which of the following 90-minute interactive biblical counseling discussions (not debates) would you most like to hear?

Imagine that you could listen in on any of these conversations? Which would be your top three to hear?

(Imagined) Biblical Counseling Conversations 

1. Jay Adams and David Powlison discussing the differences between their approaches to biblical counseling. (This would be a particularly healthy and holy conversation since it would take place in heaven between two glorified saints!)

2. The biblical counseling faculty of SEBTS (Nate Brooks, Kristin Kellen, Sam Williams, Nate Cockrell, Brad Hambrick) and the biblical counseling faculty of MBTS (Dale Johnson and Samuel Stephens) comparing and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of “Redemptive Biblical Counseling” and “Traditional Nouthetic Biblical Counseling.”

3. Bob Kellemen and Dale Johnson discussing what makes biblical counseling truly biblical: a theology and methodology of biblical counseling.

4. Bob Kellemen and Heath Lambert discussing the history of biblical soul care and what constitutes historic biblical counseling/historic Christian embodied-soul care.

5. Greg Gifford and Jason Kovacs discussing the strengths and weaknesses of clinically-informed biblical counseling.

6. Ed Welch and Sean Perron discussing whether or not fear is sin, along with a practical theology of emotions for biblical counseling.

7. Donn Arms (Jay Adams’s “right-hand man”) and Heath Lambert discussing to what extent “second generation nouthetic biblical counseling” is aligned with “first generation nouthetic counseling.”

8. Darby Strickland, Julie Ganschow, and Eliza Huie discussing biblical counseling and trauma.

9. Jeremy Lelek and Francine Tan discussing physiological interventions for embodied-souls in biblical counseling.

10. Nate Brooks, Keith Evans, and Jared Poulton discussing common grace, Cornelius Van Til, Herman Bavinck, and biblical counseling.

11. Charles Hodges and Stephen Ganschow discussing the Creation Mandate and the role of science, neuroscience, and research in biblical counseling.

12. Leaders of major biblical counseling organizations (Kevin Carson with the BCC, Jonathan Holmes with CCEF, Jeremy Lelek with ABC, and Dale Johnson with ACBC) comparing and contrasting their organizational purpose, comparing and contrasting and their philosophy of biblical counseling, and discussing how they could build bridges toward each other.

13. Curtis Solomon and John Babler discussing addressing PTSD from a biblical perspective and from a research perspective.

14. Ernie Baker and Jeremy Pierre comparing and contrasting two approaches to public biblical counseling interactions: a.) interacting as a “prophet on the wall” who focuses on calling out errant biblical counseling views, or b.) interaction focused on a positive presentation of the beauty of biblical counseling.

Join the Conversation 

Which three of these biblical counseling conversations would you be most interesting in hearing?

What other biblical counseling discussion topic would you like to hear, and what biblical counseling leaders would you like to have discuss that topic?