The Bible and Scripture alone 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.

We are very excited that in just a matter of months, the Association of Certified Biblical

Counselors is going to host our 41st annual conference in Jacksonville, Florida at the First

Baptist Church of Jacksonville,

and we are going to be considering biblical counseling and the Protestant Reformation.

Our goal at that conference is to look at the five solas of the Reformation and see how

they apply to biblical counseling. One of the things that you may be wondering as you hear about that is

why in the world would I want to go to a conference on the Protestant Reformation that has to do with

counseling? After all, it is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and so many people are doing conferences on that historic

event in the Christian church. Why in the world would I want to go to a counseling conference on

that? And what I say to people is that if you don't understand why you should come to a counseling

conference on the truths of the Reformation, then you really need to come to a

counseling conference on the truths of the Reformation. Because if you don't understand why that's important,

then I would suggest that you don't understand either the Protestant Reformation or counseling ministry or both.

And so we really want to help the church get clarity on this.

And the question about why do it just makes me more than excited that we actually are doing it.

As a matter of fact, one of the key solas of the Reformation that undergirded that great historic change in the life

of the church and is one of the elements that we're going to consider at our annual conference

is the truth of Sola Scriptura, or Scripture alone. In the days of the Reformation, of course, the conflict between the

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