95 Theses for Counseling 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.

In exactly one month on October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, the Association of Certified Biblical

Counselors will have its 41st Annual conference on biblical counseling.

Our theme for this year is biblical counseling and the Protestant Reformation.

But before I talk with you about that, I want to remind you about the whole reason for the Protestant Reformation to begin with.

In the year of 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg,

Germany. His point in nailing those theses to the door was to debate the Roman Catholic

practice of indulgences as it related to the biblical teaching on repentance. Luther did not know that in his attempt to spark a

debate, he would actually spark a reformation that would change the whole world. The reformers

ultimately believed that the gospel was at stake in the debate between themselves and the Roman Catholic Church.

And as they argued for faithfulness on the gospel, they actually recovered the gospel,

and they did change the world. Our annual conference at ACBC this year is meant to commemorate the Protestant Reformation. And here's the

thing. On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, everybody is commemorating the Reformation.

But our conference at ACBC is going to be very different. We at ACBC think we can offer a unique

take on the Reformation. We're not just talking about history,

and we're not just talking about theology, as important as those realities are. But we're talking

about the history and the theology of the Reformation as they relate to the care of human beings

in the ministry of counseling.

And here is the issue that the church faces with regard to counseling.

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