Myths about biblical counseling and medication 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 week from today, the

Association of Certified Biblical Counselors will host our 41st annual conference on biblical counseling.

This year, that conference is going to be in Jacksonville, Florida,

at the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, and the theme of our conference is faithfully Protestant

biblical counseling and the Reformation. In celebration of that conference and of the 500th anniversary

of the Protestant Reformation, I wrote a document

called 95 Theses for an authentically Christian commitment to counseling. And that document is a summary

of the commitments that biblical counselors have about the Bible, about counseling practice,

about secular psychology, about the body and the soul.

It's a summary of all those commitments in one place. I wanted to try to condense some of the most

essential arguments about biblical counseling and place them in one location so that people could

have a handy summary of what biblical counselors actually believe and what they don't believe.

And essentially what the theses argue is that the Bible is sufficient for counseling, the revelation

of God in the scripture, about Jesus, about who we are, about who the spirit is, about the power

that's available to us to live life in a

broken world, all of those resources, as they are revealed in Scripture, is what Christians need

to do counseling. When Christians have made that argument, though, there have been a number of

arguments that have been made in return. And one of those arguments that

have been made in return has to do with medicine and medical science. And the charge that biblical

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