Counseling and Faith 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. It is 2017 and the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. One of the

things that we are doing to commemorate the Protestant Reformation this year at ACBC is to host our

annual conference on the topic of the Protestant Reformation and Biblical Reformation this year at ACBC is to host our annual conference on the topic of the Protestant

Reformation and biblical counseling. During the second, third, and fourth of October in Jacksonville,

Florida, we are going to have our annual conference where we talk about the themes of the Protestant

Reformation, including the five solas of the Reformation, and we talk about the themes of the Protestant Reformation, including the

five solas of the Reformation, and we talk about how those five themes find their home in biblical

counseling, and how persons who are committed to biblical counseling are the best representatives

of those five solas. And one of the things that we're going to be talking about during those

days is the issue of biblical counseling and faith alone. We're going to focus in on the issue of

sola Fide. Now, as we talk about that on the podcast this week, I want to talk about faith alone

in three different categories. And first, I want to talk about it in a historical

category. When you read about the Protestant Reformation, you will hear historical theologians

talk about two principles of the Reformation. On the one hand, there was the material principle, and on the other hand,

there was the formal principle. The formal principle of the Reformation had to do with the authority

that church leaders were going to use in the debate. We're having a debate about very important

and significant issues. What is

our source of authority? For the reformers, their source of authority was scripture and scripture

alone. And so when we talk about the formal principle of the reformation, we're talking about the

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