Consider Your Counsel, Bob Kellemen
Consider Your Counsel, Bob Kellemen
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Consider Your Counsel
Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling

Author: Bob Kellemen

Narrator: Alan Crookham

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: One Audiobooks

Published: 05/07/2025

Synopsis

Biblical counseling is not an easy calling. How do you effectively communicate the gospel to hurting people? Theological training and learning from other counselors are both key to growing in the wisdom, love, and skill needed to apply Scripture to yourself and others. Preparation is key, but sometimes the most effective training comes after you’ve jumped into the ring—when a coach puts his arm around your shoulder and helps you take a look at what you’ve done well and where you can grow.In Consider Your Counsel, Bob Kellemen comes alongside counselors and shares where he and others have missed the mark. Drawing on more than three decades of counseling supervision experience, he unpacks ten of the most common missteps that he has noticed in his own counseling, as well as those he has mentored.From teaching before listening to targeting sin but not suffering, Kellemen helps counselors of all ages see where they may need to reassess their methods and continue to grow. Each chapter briefly discusses a typical counseling mistake, then delves into a discussion of alternative approaches and practical suggestions for maturing as biblical counselor. This uniquely helpful book will help readers do an honest assessment of their counseling and encourage them to grow as counselors and friends.

About The Author

Bob Kellemen, ThM, PhD, is Academic Dean, Dean of Students, and Professor of Biblical Counseling at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana. Bob is also the Founder and CEO of RPM Ministries, through which he speaks, writes, and consults on biblical counseling and Christian living. Dr. Kellemen served as the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Bob and his wife, Shirley, have been married for forty years and have two adult children and three granddaughters. He is the author of twenty books, including Gospel-Centered Counseling, Gospel Conversations, and Consider Your Counsel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wagner on November 01, 2022

Really enjoyed the insights in this work. Kelleman is thoughtful throughout, and leverages decades of supervision to highlight areas of growth for biblical counselors. The biblical counseling movement needs more constructively self-critical works like this one.......more

Goodreads review by Joan on July 31, 2021

Kellemen wrote this book as a result of questions asked of him by his students. He identifies areas of biblical counseling that may be blind spots, needing assessment and correcting. This book is by no means a critique of biblical counseling but rather an encouragement to grow in the technique to be......more

Goodreads review by Nitoy on September 03, 2021

In every ministry there will always be flaws. No matter how good the method or program it administers, there will be some shortcomings. We are finite beings and sinners. No ministry is foolproof. It is by God’s grace that He allows us to work on a ministry. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t addres......more

Goodreads review by Cory on February 08, 2023

Short little book on common mistakes in the counseling process. This book would be good for not only pastors and those who consider themselves biblical counselors, but all Christina who provide counsel to others. He draws from his own experience to address broad issues and then corrects them with sc......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on October 21, 2024

Consider Your Counsel by Bob Kelleman is one of the best biblical counseling books I’ve ever read. It is essentially a primer on how to disciple others. The book’s content is based on ten mistakes that Kelleman has witnessed counselors, including himself, make. The book’s chapters consist of the ten......more

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