threats to biblical counseling on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in 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 going to deal with several different threats to biblical

counseling. It's in the world that we live in. It's very common that we would endure

threats of any kind, especially when we're trying to propagate truth.

The Word of God really makes very clear that we're going to struggle consistently with

defending the truth.

And so in biblical counseling, I think it's important that we assess periodically what some of

those threats might look like.

Now, of course, we're not doing this as our distinct position

where we don't propagate positively what the Bible says about soul care. That's certainly

our primary goal and duty. But I think it's incumbent upon us as well to make sure that we're

consistently looking out for what Paul warns about in Colossians that are vain

philosophies and empty deceptions. This week, I want to devote a little bit of time considering

some of those things, maybe in broad strokes. This is actually a breakout session that I was

able to do at this year's annual conference, October 2019. And so I want to share that with you.

I think it's important information for us to consider. The first thing that I think it's important

for us to consider is when we think about secular psychology and its propagation and its continued

growth and advancement, we have to be aware of the secularism that's promoted

in secular psychology. When we think about some of the ideas and ideologies, Jay Adams made

very clear early on in the biblical counseling movement, some of the dangers of humanistic

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