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. Welcome back to Transformed. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.

And today we are talking about responding to church hurt.

And I don't mean that you stubbed your toe while you're at church.

Oh, I mean you were at a church and something happened that you were very hurt by. And this is, unfortunately,

a reality of us being Christians who are still growing in sanctification, going to a gathering,

a corporate gathering with other Christians who are also growing in their sanctification.

The reality is that church hurt is just inevitable

to a certain degree. I don't want to sound like a doomsdayer, but I mean, it just seems like a

high likelihood if I'm not perfectly like Christ and you're not perfectly like Christ that we're

going to hurt each other at some point if we're close enough to each other and fellowshiping together.

This has come up over and over in different contexts. And I was talking with a student recently

who was just kind of in a precarious place with their pastor. And there is kind of this weird

personal slash professional line for the student. We were trying to think through like how to

honor the Lord

well in that context. I was with another buddy. Seriously, this is all within the past couple of weeks.

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