What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is

Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's

University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.

And today we're talking about the difference between forbearance, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Perhaps you've been in a situation where you're wondering if a person is taking advantage of you.

I think that's like the modern English way we would say it.

It's I'm being mistreated. I'm being steamrolled. I am being walked all over. And in each of

those phrases, as a Christian, we're wondering like, am I being too kind? And when I say take

advantage, they're exploiting my kindness or my compassion. And in so doing,

there's resources, there's time, there's relational equity, whatever those things are. So when we

talk about forbearance, forgiveness, reconciliation, a friend of mine actually who is a missionary

overseas, he wrote in and he said, Greg, could you address this

issue on Transform? So today I would like to address this issue of what does it mean to

forbear and when do we need to practice forgiveness and reconciliation? I'll be honest that there

are times when I am in personal circumstances where it's at church or we're in a friend

group and I'll hear a husband snap at his wife like get kind of lippy with her and I see her

just kind of like graciously bow out and I'm like, hmm, I wonder what that's like in private,

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