Topics: Theology

Jay Adams called pastors back to biblical soul care with the publication of his landmark book Competent to Counsel in 1970. He founded ACBC (then called the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors) in 1976.
As you are counseling, your theology is at work.
The Puritans have a way of teaching us today how to integrate the Bible and its doctrines into our life experience and into the problems we face in daily life.
The people coming to sit and talk with us are very often in a dark place, and it is in those moments that we get to offer the most wonderful news of the gospel.
Spiritualizing sin is not a harmless misunderstanding. It is a rejection of God’s authority masquerading as righteousness.
The self-sufficiency of God shapes the way we, as biblical counselors, shepherd and love counselees unconditionally, without need of affirmation or validation.