Chapter 2 continues the examination of the history and significance of the biblical counselling movement associated with Jay Adams. It traces the history of Adams’s development of nouthetic counselling and its leading institutions.

This chapter introduces the history and significance of the biblical counselling movement associated with Jay Adams. Adams crossed swords with the established practice of referring members of the church to psychiatric and psychological experts without trying to take care of “their own.” That is, psychiatry replaced the pastorate’s jurisdiction over personal problems.