Faith and counseling malpractice 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 two weeks, the annual conference of the Association of

Certified Biblical Counselors will be happening in Jacksonville, Florida. The name of our conference is

faithfully Protestant, biblical counseling, and the Reformation.

And what we want to do is spend three days together in Jacksonville with people from all over the

world talking about how it is the themes of the Protestant Reformation that undergird biblical

counseling and that separate it from other forms of counseling.

In advance of that annual conference, I wrote a document called 95 Theses for an authentically

Christian approach to counseling to sort of discuss what biblical counseling is and how it's

different from other approaches to

counseling that Christians try to undertake. And in the last couple of weeks, we've been focusing

on those theseses on the podcast. Last week, we looked at thesis 72 and thesis 73, which talk

about biblical counselors and state licensure. This week, I want to look

at the 62nd thesis, and here is what it says. Because the most significant problem people have

is God's displeasure regarding their sin, and since it is impossible to please God without faith,

counselors who do not emphasize faith in Jesus are guilty of the most serious kind of counseling

malpractice. That is, of course, a reference to Hebrews chapter 11, verse 6 that says without faith,

it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe

that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. The reason I wrote the thesis to sound like

that is to answer a very crucial objection to biblical counselors or to the case that biblical

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