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 I am going to speak to,

to finally speak to the issue of autism, the topic of autism, the diagnosis of autism.

Many of you have written in about this. And when I say many, I'm not exaggerating. I've been filing away emails for a while

where you've wondered. And one individual wrote in and asked about an 18-year-old daughter of a friend.

So I believe the way the email was written is that she has a friend with an 18-year-old daughter

that was autistic.

Another gentleman, this one was interesting too, that his daughter went off to school and then comes back, that would be college, by the way, comes back and says that she's high-functioning

autistic. She's on the spectrum, and high functioning usually means something like you can still

do your daily tasks. You can get a job. You can date. It doesn't prevent you from living independently

and so forth. But you would still consider yourself to be on the spectrum. He didn't say how

she was diagnosed. That's just what he said. Another listener, and these emails go back to the fall of 2024.

Another email came in and said, hey, can you just tell us about autism from a biblical

perspective? And so that's my intent today to answer these questions, to contribute to the

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