mistakes parents make when they spank 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. This week on the podcast, we are thrilled to be

joined by Stuart Scott, a professor of biblical counseling at the Masters University, the membership

director at the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and also a fellow

with ACBC. We've asked Dr. Scott on the podcast this week to talk to us about a very controversial issue.

That issue is the one of parents spanking their children. If you do not believe that that is a controversial practice,

it is because you have not read any mainstream magazines on parenting. The word is out that it is

wrong to spank your kids. And yet in the midst of that, we have the Bible, which teaches that parents are to use the

rod in the correction and discipline of their children. And yet, the command to use the rod in

spanking does not guarantee that any individual parent's particular practice of spanking is without error. And so we wanted to ask

Dr. Scott about some common mistakes that parents make when they spank their children. And so,

the operations director of ACBC, Sean Perron, caught up with Dr. Scott to ask him some questions

about it. Here's their conversation.

Stuart, we get a lot of questions from listeners and counselors about spanking.

And we want to know what does the Bible teach about spanking and is spanking something that parents need to be concerned about?

Well, it sure is. And again, it's a blessing to be here and to even address this issue.

First of all, just what does the Bible teach about spanking? In Ephesion 6-4, parents are told, do not provoke your children to anger,

but bring them up in the disciplined training and instruction of the Lord.

So our responsibility as parents is to do that as faithfully as we can with the help of the

spirit of God for the glory of God. And parents need to be reminded that there's no guarantees that that process,

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