Counseling in a sexually broken culture 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're doing things a little bit differently.

Ordinarily, I'll interact with some of your questions or address a specific issue on the

podcast in a very limited 10 to 12 minute format.

But we're doing something different on the podcast this week

in advance of our ACBC annual conference on biblical counseling this year focusing on the theme of

abuse. We're calling the conference, light in the darkness, biblical counseling, and abuse,

and we want to show how Christians need to have a fully-orbed biblical response

to those who struggle with the problem of abuse. To help us prepare for that conference this

week on the podcast, I want to bring you a special talk that I gave to a conference of pastors

back in January. This talk is not available online anywhere else,

and because it addresses the issue of abuse,

and in particular, sexual abuse,

I wanted you to hear what I had to say to these pastors about this topic.

It is far too long for us to do in just one podcast.

And so we're going to break the talk up into two parts and give you each part over two weeks.

And so this week here is the first part of the talk I gave on sexual abuse to a room full of pastors back in January.

And I hope it is something that helps you.

I'm assigned to talk tonight about counseling in a sexually broken culture.

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