Thinking Biblically About Abuse, with Jim Newheiser

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kevin is joined by Dr. James Newheiser, theDirector of the Christian Counseling Program and Associate Professor ofChristian Counseling and Pastoral Theology at RTS Charlotte. Attitudes towardabuse, both inside and outside the church, have changed dramatically withinrecent generations. How can pastors deal with this issue Biblically in theircongregations?

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Timestamps:

What God Has to Say About Our Bodies [0:00 – 1:27]

Dr. James R. Newheiser, Jr. [1:27 – 7:01]

Talking About Abuse [7:01 – 12:31]

Defining Abuse [12:31 – 16:00]

Matthew 18 or Romans 13? [16:00 – 24:52]

Maxims That Try to Help but Cause More Hurt [24:52 – 27:03]

“Always believe the victim.” [27:03 – 32:14]

“If you feel abused, then you were abused.” [32:14 – 36:36]

“It’s never the victim’s fault.” [36:36 – 44:12]

Marital Separation [44:12 – 48:13]

Authority: Good and Bad [48:13 – 54:56]

Books and Everything:

What God Has to Say About Our Bodies, by Sam Allberry

When Words Matter Most: Speaking Truth with Grace to Those You Love, by Cheryl Marshall and Caroline Newheiser

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. You are listening to Life and Books and Everything. Good to have you with us.
0:16.8	I'm Kevin DeYoung and Colin and Justin are not here, but I have a special guest that I'll be
0:23.9	talking to. I'll introduce him in just a moment. So glad to have you listening with us again as we
0:29.2	roll on with this next season of life and books and everything. As always, or at least as we have been for a number of months.
0:40.2	We are glad to be sponsored by Crossway.
0:42.9	Grateful for their partnership and all of the good books that they put out.
0:48.0	And today just want to highlight the newest from Sam Albury,
0:51.7	what God has to say about our bodies. We live in a time where people
0:57.7	are thinking, well, they're probably actually not thinking. They're just emoting and assuming,
1:03.6	but they certainly have ideas about their bodies. And the Bible has a lot to say about our bodies,
1:13.6	chiefly that when we're Christians,
1:22.0	we no longer are Lord of our bodies. Christ is, and that ought to have an impact on everything.
1:26.5	So Sam's new book published by Crossway, you can check it out.
1:37.8	All right, I am joined today by my friend and colleague Jim Neuheiser, who teaches counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, was for many years before that, a pastor in California. Jim, welcome to the program.
1:48.7	Thank you, Kevin. I've really enjoyed getting to know you over, I guess, you've been here
1:54.4	five or six years in Charlotte. I've been here four years, but on the same faculty together
1:59.9	and see you when your Baptist friends let you out to
2:03.8	come to a Presbyterian church on Sunday evening. Sometime you're there. Glad to have you as a
2:09.7	friend and as a colleague. Tell us just a little bit more about yourself. As you mentioned, my
2:16.5	main job is as the director of the Christian counseling program,
2:20.9	which is really a biblical counseling program. Before that, we were in Escadito, California,
2:25.7	for 26 years as a pastor. And before that, I was six years a pastor of an underground church
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