Creating a culture of life in the local church on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions

to the problems that people face.

For the entire month of August, we are focusing on the sanctity of human life as the planned

parenthood crisis continues to erupt in our nation.

And on this edition, we want to talk about how Christians can work together to create a

culture of life in the local church.

It's not enough that Christians be in favor of life.

We have to be focused on creating a culture of life in the local church.

And to help us think that through today,

I've invited as our guest on the program today to be Greg Gilbert. He is the pastor of Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He's the author of What is the Gospel? Who is Jesus? And why

I trust the Bible? All from Crossway. And he is one of the most

effective pastors I know. And I'm so glad he's with us to help think about how to be a faithful

church leader. I've also asked Amy Evenson onto the podcast today. Amy is the producer of

truth and love. And she is going to help us think through this

issue by directing some questions to me and Greg.

So the topic of this podcast is creating a culture of life in the local church. With that,

I think it would be helpful for our listeners to understand what you mean by that. And maybe

aren't Christians already

doing this? Yeah, I think that's a great question. And, you know, I realized that we need to be

creating a culture of life in our churches in a surprising way about 15 years ago. I was a college student,

and I was really concerned about protecting the

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