Counseling and the Resurrection 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.

This week on the podcast, I want to deal with an issue that I've been burdened about for quite

some time. And it's something really at large in the biblical counseling movement that has been

on my heart. And I think in the current situation

that we find ourselves in with the coronavirus pandemic. It's really brought it back to the forefront

of my mind, and the topic that I want us to discuss, we actually did a pre-conference on this topic

this past year at our annual conference in 2019.

And it's on this issue of heaven's hope, future hope.

How do we think about what I call eschatological hope, the hope that is to come?

And to give some context, I think in the biblical counseling movement,

we've felt pressure in some ways to move away from what the

Bible really emphasizes. The Bible emphasizes eschatological hope. I don't think anyone's done this

intentionally. I find myself doing this at times where we want to be significant in the broader

context of counseling. We want to have academic respect the broader context of counseling.

We want to have academic respectability and that sort of thing.

And I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to make clear argumentation and rational

thought and making solid our arguments about counseling and not wanting anything that we

say and do to be against what

is revealed in science and so on and so forth. But I think sometimes it blinds or at least

hinders what the Bible emphasizes about our true hope, is that our true hope is not here

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