TIL 261: How to Cultivate Compassion as a Counselor
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
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🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Featuring: 1. See the example of Jeremiah 2. See the example of Jesus 3. Never grow past the Gospel (Col. 3:5ff) Notes: With All Your Heart: Orienting Your Mind, Desires, and Will Toward Christ Troxel, A. Craig https://www.wtsbooks.com/products/with-all-your-heart-orienting-your-mind-desires-and-will-toward-christ-9781433535536?variant=31500270960702 When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Resources for Changing Lives) Ed Welch https://www.amazon.com/When-People-Are-Big-Small/dp/0875526004
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| 0:00.0 | How to Cultivate Compassion as a counselor on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:18.4 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems |
| 0:22.0 | that people face. And this week on the podcast, I want us to address an issue that often comes up |
| 0:29.6 | when we speak about counseling. In a secular sense, we talk about these words, empathy and sympathy. |
| 0:40.9 | And certainly in biblical counseling, that's not something we want to shy away from. And in fact, we ought very naturally to demonstrate sympathy |
| 0:47.0 | and empathy toward those in which we counsel. What I want to do is simply just try and clarify. |
| 1:14.0 | I get this question often when I go around and teach at different places. I get this question often from those who are learning to counsel and many who have been engaged in counseling. And they ask the question about how do I grow in empathy? How do I grow in sympathy toward a person? How do I grow in compassion toward a person? If we think about the secular understanding of empathy, this is the way in which |
| 1:21.3 | it's described. In counseling, empathy is an expression of the regard and respect the counselor |
| 1:27.2 | holds for the client or the |
| 1:29.2 | counsellee whose experiences may be quite different from that of the counselor. |
| 1:34.1 | And that's certainly true. |
| 1:36.2 | One of the things we think distinctly about as biblical counselors is we may not have the |
| 1:42.1 | exact same experiences as the people that we're counseling, |
| 1:45.3 | but one of the key tenets of biblical counseling is when we walk into that room, we're not |
| 1:50.7 | very much different than the person sitting across the table from us. In fact, we have very |
| 1:55.3 | similar experiences. I mean, the Bible talks about the way in which Jesus shared our experiences here on earth. |
| 2:02.9 | We certainly have closer experiences to the people that we're counseling. |
| 2:08.8 | We struggle with temptation. |
| 2:10.7 | We struggle with sin. |
| 2:11.9 | We struggle with devastation and suffering and difficulty and the consequences of our sin and so on, we can identify deeply with |
| 2:21.2 | the person who's sitting across the table from us. But I want us to take sort of a different |
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