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The Problems with Jay Adams’ Nouthetic Counseling Works-Sanctification Doctrine

by Rebecca Davis | Apr 21, 2022 | our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures

Before 2008 I was vaguely aware of Jay Adams’ nouthetic counseling. But in 2008 I read his little booklet Godliness Through Discipline, and I was incensed. At that time my understanding about abuse and abuse enablers was microscopic, but I had been studying the...

Restoring a Pedophile, According to Jay Adams

by Rebecca Davis | Mar 10, 2021 | For the Protectors

This article is Part Three of the series “Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Teachings,” written with the help of Valerie Jacobsen. Part One, “How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile,” is here. Part Two, “How Pedophiles are Forgiven, from the...

How Pedophiles Are Forgiven, From the Teachings of Jay Adams

by Rebecca Davis | Feb 10, 2021 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures

This is Part 2 in my “Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Teachings” series. Part 1, about counseling a pedophile, can be found here. ***** Many years ago when I was a very young and very naïve teacher at a Christian high school, I caught a student blatantly...

How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile

by Rebecca Davis | Jan 5, 2021 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures

Part 1 in the Series: Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Nouthetic Counseling I have posted about “nouthetic counseling” (later rebranded to be called “Biblical counseling”) more than any other tagged topic on this blog. But this series will examine Jay Adams’...

Have You Been Philippians 4:8’d?

by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures

It’s actually a beautiful verse. But sometimes it’s used as a cudgel. After I had heard two different people refer to this Bible verse as a verb (as a cudgel that had been used against them), I knew it was time to write about it. Here it is: Beautiful verse, right? A...
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