Understanding psychotropic medication biblically 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.

And this week on the podcast, I am joined by Dan and Pam Gannon. Dan is a retired orthopedic surgeon, and Pam, many of you know, is an RN.

She worked as an ICU nurse for quite some time, and she spoke at our 2018 annual conference,

and I'm enjoying getting to know both of them. They live now in Bozeman, Montana, where they

attend Grace Bible Church. They're both ACBC certified members, and Dan, you're actually an elder

at Grace Bible.

And so I'm so thankful for you guys and your work, the way that you guys think about

medical issues, the way that you think about biblical counseling, your love.

You guys are practitioners.

You do biblical counseling.

You've seen it work in the counseling room.

And I love it. And so we've

enjoyed getting to know one another just in a short amount of time. But today's topic is a serious

one. It's a difficult one where we certainly acknowledge that. It's very rigid on several

different sides. It can be very sharp, and people often, they're not really sure how to take conversation about the issue of psychotropic medication.

And so we want to be cautious. We want to be sensitive, but we want to be honest about all that we can relative to psychotropic medication.

So I'm grateful that they're here to help us think through this issue from a biblical perspective.

So I think the best place for us to start, guys, is a medical diagnosis.

Let's see if we can distinguish, because this often gets conflated and confused in terms of

the medical model of science and medication and so on, where we conflate a medical

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