The Future of the Biblical Counseling Movement 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, October 1st, 2018, and it is our 174th edition of Truth and Love.

This edition will be my very last time hosting Truth and Love since we started

recording the podcast in the summer of 2015. In fact, tomorrow, Tuesday, October the 2nd, I will step

down as the executive director of ACBC, and I just want to let you know how grateful we are that you have taken the time to

listen to this podcast. When we began the podcast three years ago, our hope was that a thousand

or so people would listen to it. And we have experienced the just blowing away of those very

modest expectations. Last year in 2017, more than 200,000 of you

listened to the Truth and Love podcast. And this year, already the first week in October,

300,000 of you have listened to it. And that's in more than 50 countries. So we have just been amazed at the reach of

this podcast, and as I record this podcast for the very last time, I want to let you know how much

I appreciate you allowing us the privilege of coming into your homes, your offices, your cars, and your earbuds. And I really

hope that the work we have done here for this podcast has been a blessing to you. The topic that I was

asked to address on this last edition of Truth and Love that I'll be hosting is to address the issue

of the future of the biblical counseling movement. I'm happy to talk about that. The biblical

counseling movement has been a source of fascination for me for many years. I've spent a lot of

time studying it. I've spent a lot of time involved in it and writing about it was the subject of my doctoral dissertation more than 10 years ago, which actually became a book with Crossway called the Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams.

One of the things that I do in the After Adams book is I divide the history of the biblical counseling movement into two

sections that I call generations. I talk about a first generation that was focused on foundations

of the movement, which happened more or less between 1970 and 1990. And that's where you have the

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