{"id":97,"date":"2012-10-14T06:42:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T11:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albanybiblicalcounseling.com\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:07:02","slug":"biblical-counseling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/albanybiblicalcounseling.com\/biblical-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_249039553\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row align-center\"  id=\"row-779047478\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1855416552\" class=\"col medium-10 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h1>What is Biblical Counseling?<\/h1>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1782958296\" class=\"col medium-10 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p>Dr. Jay Adams founded the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (NANC) with the desire that the organization and its rigorous certification process would become the backbone of the biblical counseling movement. 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