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, 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 I am your host and today we're

talking about relationship skills to strengthen any relationship, friendships, dating relationships,

husband-wife, any of those relationships. What are some things that you must practically do

in order to make them stronger?

One of the privileges I have in my life is teaching a class here at the Masters University.

That's where I record these episodes, and it's called Marriage and Family.

Through it, a colleague of mine wrote a book called Mary Wisely, Mary Well, his name is Ernie Baker.

And Ernie says in his book that there are relationship skills, things that you do to strengthen your relationships with other

people. So I've taken that concept and tried to expand on it more and more and more and help my

students understand what are key ingredients of God-honoring

relationships. We've talked about these in the past with red flags and dating. We've talked about

these with looking at those who might be manipulative and how we're being manipulated by them.

I've talked about role clarity. Those all come from relationship skills. And though the list is not exhaustive,

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