Making Grace Practical on this edition of Truth and 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 for the problems that people face.

This is 2017, and as most Christians are aware, it's the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation,

that time in the history of the church when the gospel of Jesus Christ was recovered after hundreds of years

of darkness. Evangelical Christians are right to celebrate this remarkable anniversary in the life

of the church, and we are celebrating it here at ACBC. Our annual conference this year is entitled Faithfully Protestant,

biblical counseling, and the Reformation. At our conference, we'll be looking at the five

solas of the Reformation, Sola Gratia, Sola Scripura, Sola Fidei, Sola deo Gloria, and Solis Christus.

We want to show the Church of Jesus Christ, the relevance of and Solis Christus. We want to show the Church of Jesus Christ the relevance of those

solas for counseling ministry. But some people really wonder about this. Why in the world would

we be concerned to go to a conference on counseling that focuses on the five solas, that focuses on these key doctrines

of the Protestant Reformation. I would want to say really candidly that we wonder this because

we need to grow in our understanding of the crucial nature of the heart of Reformation theology,

and we need to grow in our understanding of what's going on

in counseling ministry. As a matter of fact, the five solas of the Reformation have absolutely

everything to do with the kinds of problems that people face, and therefore the kinds of

conversations that we have in counseling ministry.

As we lead up to our conference this year, we're going to take some time on the podcast

on several occasions to emphasize one of these solas that we're going to be talking about

at our annual conference this year. And this week we're going to talk about Sola Gracia.

Sola Gracia is a Latin term that means grace alone. It means that grace alone is at the

heart of the Christian life. God's grace alone occupies a fundamental position in the truths that we

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