Questions about the ACBC Conference on Abuse 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 doing what we promised to do last week when we made an announcement

about moving our annual conference, and that is to take your questions about that move and about our

conference on abuse that's going to happen in Fort Worth this year. So we have received

many of your questions, and we want to tackle some of those on the podcast this week.

As we do that, I want to give you a little bit of good news and make an announcement that our operations director, Sean Perron, who would ordinarily be helping me on the podcast this week and who would be posing the questions to me that you've sent in, he is not here because we are thrilled that he and his wife, Jenny, welcome to the birth of their first born son just this week. And so he is out of pocket

at the hospital with his wife and his baby, and all of us at ACBC are thrilled for the Peron family.

So even as we're thrilled for them, I'm going to be tackling your questions just by myself

this week and trying to interact with you as best I can.

As we evaluated the questions that we received from you, I want to break it down into a couple

of categories. And the first set of categories has to do with just moving the conference in general. Let me just explain,

for those of you who are not aware, that over a year ago, we made an agreement with Southwestern

Seminary that they would host our annual conference on biblical counseling. One of the defining

characteristics of the ACBC annual conference on biblical counseling is that

we move around each year from location to location. We spread it out over different parts of the country

and in different kinds of institutions. And we decided that our 2018 annual conference would be held

at Southwestern Seminary. And we decided, actually as a separate decision from that, that it would be held at Southwestern Seminary, and we decided, actually, as a separate

decision from that, that it would be focusing on the theme of abuse. How do biblical

counselors need to use the scriptures to respond wisely and with care to people who've been

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