The Remedy for Self-Afliction on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, 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.

And this week on the podcast, I am excited that one of my former pastors, Brian Gaines,

is going to be with us.

Brian is the pastor of family discipleship at Grace Community Church in Glenrose, Texas.

He regularly teaches and equips parents in their church.

He also works in their student ministry. He leads

adult care groups. He helps to oversee much of the curriculum that's taught there. He leads the

Grace Biblical Counseling Center, the center at the church. They're a certified training center with us

here at ACBC. He's also a certified biblical counselor with ACBC as well.

So, so delighted that Brian is here with us. Sam Stevens, our director of training center

certification, was able to sit down with him and talk about this important subject of self-harm,

self-affliction. And I love the way that they're describing this to talk about how

Christ's affliction in that language becomes a good remedy for the way we think about self-affliction

or self-harm. So join me as we listen in on this very important topic talking about

self-harm and self-affliction and what

the scriptures give as remedy to those difficult situations. Brian, thanks for joining us at this

episode. Christ's affliction as the remedy for self-affliction. I think maybe some of our listeners

may not be familiar with that term, self-affliction.

Can you give us a definition, maybe a working definition of that term, and maybe some examples of what that may look like?

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