In my initial response to Dr. Köstenberger, I was unfair in my assessment of Brandon Shields. In the original version I wrote:

Brandon Shields, the other source to whom Köstenberger refers repeatedly, had little or no knowledge of the FIC prior to his involvement in the Perspectives on Family Ministry project. He is not a scholar; he is not a researcher. Shields is a youth minister who doesn't like the FIC model. Moreover, his objections were addressed in the Perspectives book, and those r...