Christians don't need secular therapy 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. Well, this is it. It is the week of the 41st

annual conference on biblical counseling from the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.

We have people from all over the United States and from all over the world in Jacksonville,

Florida this week to talk about what it means to be faithfully Protestant, biblical counseling,

and the Reformation. Our annual conference theme this year is, of course, intended to celebrate

the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and to make the point that

it is a commitment to biblical counseling that best embodies the themes of the Protestant

Reformation. To make that case this week, I'm joined along with five other plenary session speakers,

including Brad Bigny, Jim Neuheiser, Keith Palmer, Ligand Duncan, and Paige Patterson.

And we're going to be showing how the five solas of the Reformation spring to life in counseling

ministry and how it's biblical counseling that most consistently applies those solas to life.

The theme of the conference underlines something that is quite frankly unpleasant that Christians who are committed to counseling know about. And we have called

it the counseling wars. And the counseling wars refer to the strong disagreements that have

existed among believers in Jesus who possess different

convictions about how to counsel and how to counsel well. There are a lot of disagreements that

Christians have lamentably had about counseling, but I think the most significant disagreement,

the key disagreement among Christians on this point

has to do with the best place for counseling resources.

Biblical counselors have argued for decades that the scriptures of the Old and New Testament

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