Feeling guilty after rape 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 podcast is releasing on Monday, September 24th.

That is exactly one week from the start of our annual conference in Dallas, Texas, on abuse. We're calling the conference, light in the darkness,

biblical counseling, and abuse. And so we wanted to use the podcast this week to talk about some of the

issues that are on the table in abuse ministry. And on the podcast, we're talking about one of the most painful realities

that a human being can go through, and that is responding to the aftermath of the brutality

and betrayal of a rape. Rape victims experience a number of horrifying and painful realities in the aftermath of a

violent sexual attack. One of those horrible realities is that of guilt feelings over the attack.

It is a common response for women who have been victimized in a rape

to feel guilty, that they are somehow responsible for what happened to them. And what we want to do

in the context of our podcast this week is to have an introduction into a way to think about that. I always want to say

that our podcast as a brief podcast is not ever intended to be an exhaustive survey of the topics

we're considering on a week-to-week basis, but is to be an encouragement to you to begin to think through this in ways that are

biblical and helpful and to spur you on to get more resources about it.

And so as we take on this very complicated task of thinking about dealing with guilt in the aftermath

of rape, because there's so many different directions and so many different

complexities to dealing with this, I want to talk about a very real story of someone that my wife

and I ministered to in the aftermath of her rape. I'm going to call her Emily. That's not her real

name. But my wife and I met her several

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