TIL 196: Legal Issues and Abuse (feat. Deborah Dewart, Attorney)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Featuring: - How the church should think about Abuse from a legal perspective - recommendations for consent forms - steps to further understand your states reporting laws - Updates on Legal issues and gender - A case study of Church law suite Organizations: - Church Law and Tax Report - Christian Legal Society - Alliance Defending Freedom - Center for Law and Religious Freedom Further Resources: Counseling and the Courts – Deborah Dewart (2014 ACBC Annual Conference)https://biblicalcounseling.com/store/all-products/counseling-and-the-courts-deborah-dewart-breakout-session-3/ Church Discipline and the Law – Deborah Dewart (2014 ACBC Annual Conference)https://biblicalcounseling.com/store/all-products/church-discipline-and-the-law-deborah-dewart-breakout-session-5/ Legal Protections and Marriage Counseling – Deborah Dewart (2015 ACBC Annual Conference)https://biblicalcounseling.com/store/all-products/legal-protections-and-marriage-counseling-deborah-dewart/ Talk: Avoiding Legal Conflicts With Your Counselees - Deborah Dewart (2017 ACBC Annual Conference)https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/acbcdigitalresources/resources/2017+Annual+Conference+Audio/Breakout+Sessions/Breakout+%232+Conflict/Avoiding+Legal+Conflict+with+your+Counelees.mp3 Notes: Avoiding Legal Conflicts With Your Counselees - Deborah Dewart (2017 ACBC Annual Conference) https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/acbcdigitalresources/resources/2017+Breakout+Session+Notes/Breakout+Session+%234/Avoiding-Legal-Conflicts-with-your-Counselees-Deborah-Dewart.pdf Legal Issues and Abuse Risks and Responsibilities – Deborah Dewart (2018 ACBC AnnualConference) https://biblicalcounseling.com/store/all-products/deborah-dewart-legal-issues-and-abuse-risks-and-responsibilities/
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| 0:00.0 | legal issues and abuse on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:16.5 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:23.0 | Today, I am more than thrilled to invite Deborah Dewart to our podcast today. |
| 0:30.2 | She is an attorney, but little known, possibly. |
| 0:33.9 | She's also a ventriloquist and a songwriter. And she weds those two things together |
| 0:39.9 | to minister to children on some of these issues that we're going to discuss today, issues of |
| 0:46.1 | abuse and that sort of thing. Deborah, your ministry has been so important. And I think in the |
| 0:51.4 | days that we are moving ahead, your ministry is going to be all the more important |
| 0:55.7 | because the church is going to face some major legal issues in our country. |
| 1:00.5 | And we're going to need to be very wise in the ways in which we approach some of these issues. |
| 1:05.7 | One of these very topics we discussed at our annual conference this past year of which you were involved |
| 1:12.4 | and you gave a breakout session on this topic. |
| 1:15.3 | And we need to be discussing some of these legal issues. |
| 1:18.2 | One of those that we see very prevalent in our culture right now is legal issues regarding |
| 1:23.9 | abuse. |
| 1:25.3 | Deborah, if you could just explain for us some of the things that we should be |
| 1:30.2 | paying attention to as a church and counselors in particular on how to think through issues |
| 1:36.1 | of abuse from a legal perspective. Every single state has a child abuse reporting law, |
| 1:43.6 | and each state is a little bit different. |
| 1:46.8 | So it's very important that you know what the law says in your particular state, |
| 1:52.0 | and that you have a local attorney that you can call for questions. |
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