Jay Adams: Nouthetic Counseling

Byron Tyler host of Mid-South View Point radio talk show interviews Dr. Jay Adams on location in the studios of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Cordova, TN. The radio program aired on the Bott Radio Network in Memphis, TN over 640 AM and 100.7 FM on February 26, 2015. For over 45 years Dr. Jay Adams has been calling God’s people back from their dalliance with unbiblical psychological theory to a renewed confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit and the sufficiency of God’s Word to equip the man of God to help his people with problems of living and relationship. Jay Edward Adams was born in Baltimore on January 30, 1929 and was born again about 15 years later as a result of reading of a New Testament that was given to him by a friend. He received his formal training at Reformed Episcopal Seminary (B.D.), Johns Hopkins University (A.B.), Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, Temple University School of Theology (M.ST.), and the University of Missouri (Ph.D.). He pastored churches in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, served as a denominational official, a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the director of the Doctoral program at Westminster Theological Seminary in California, and then as a church planting pastor in South Carolina. He was also the founder of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in Philadelphia, the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors, and the Institute for Nouthetic Studies. In 1999 Dr. Adams retired from the pastorate of the church he had planted in South Carolina and has devoted his time to writing and lecturing. In the fall of 2001 the Redeemer Biblical Counseling Training Institute (RBCTI) was established at the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Moore, SC to provide a vehicle by which Dr. Adams could continue teaching and training Biblical/Nouthetic counselors. Follow Byron Tyler on twitter @byron640.