Welcome once again to the conversations that matter. I'm your host John Harris. We are

going to talk today about, well a topic we talked about before, but maybe approaching

it from a slightly different vantage point. We're going to talk about the Me Too movement and this idea today that seems to be gaining strength that biblical counseling is fueling the abuse of women in churches, complimentarianism is doing that,

elder like congregations is doing that, all these biblical things are the problems and

you know I'm not a biblical counselor.

I've taken courses in biblical counseling

for my seminary training and I'm familiar

with biblical counseling.

But I really appreciate those who are biblical

counselors because they're in the trenches. They're dealing with these concrete

situations on a daily basis. They're seeing what's going on out there in the world in their own congregations and beyond and that's why today I want to introduce everyone to

Pastor David Edgington who runs a ministry called compassionate counselors.

You can find out more at compassionate counselors.com.

You don't sound too mean.

Compassionate counselor sounds pretty nice. So off the top here, you know, I think that'll

deflate all the leftists who want to rage about your book, which is the abuse of wife. That's what we're going to talk about.

Pastor Edgington, thank you so much for being willing to come on the podcast, talk about this.

You're welcome. Thank you for having me.

So you wrote a book called The Abuse of Wife.

One word question. Why?

Why would you do this to yourself?

Well, you know what, at the moment when I when I wrote the book, I didn't realize how much

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