Christians and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heif 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.

This week, our guest on Truth and Love is Dr. Scott Mel, the pastor of Cornerstone Church

in West L.A. He's an adjunct faculty member at Eternity Bible College, and he is a member

of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. And Scott, we're here this week talking about cognitive behavioral therapy.

It is a therapy that is very popular in our world today, but I think a lot of Christians

don't really know what it means, what it is, what's it about.

So what is cognitive behavioral therapy?

Well, like you said, it is probably

the one of the, if not the most popular therapy and kind of used across the world today. And really,

what is? It's about changing your mood, your outlook, your productivity, and really how you feel

by changing your thoughts and behaviors. If we can manipulate your productivity, and really how you feel by changing your thoughts and behaviors.

If we can manipulate your thoughts, the maybe automatic thoughts that come into your head,

then we're going to make you feel different. You can make, you can be more productive.

If we can change the automatic behaviors, the things you simply do by habit without thinking,

then as those habits change, it changes your mood, it changes your

productivity. And so by using a combination of tools to address both the cognitive and the

behavioral sides, it changes the problems that are most concerning to most people, which are

their emotional struggles and productivity problems. So I think for the Christians who do know about this issue, there's a temptation to think

that this is maybe a really biblical approach to change because we care about thoughts and

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