TIL 268: The Nature of Biblical Counseling
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
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🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Featuring: (1) the personal discipleship ministry of God’s people to others (2) under the oversight of God’s church, (3) dependent upon the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word (4) through the work of the Holy Spirit. Notes: What is the nature of biblical counseling? Biblical counseling is the personal discipleship ministry of God’s people to others under the oversight of God’s church, dependent upon the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word through the work of the Holy Spirit. Definition of Biblical Counseling Biblical counseling is the personal discipleship ministry of God’s people to others under the oversight of God’s church, dependent upon the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word through the work of the Holy Spirit. Biblical counseling seeks to reorient disordered desires, affections, and behaviors toward a God-designed anthropology in an effort to restore true worship of God and right fellowship with others. This is accomplished by speaking the truth in love and applying Scripture to the need of the moment by comforting the suffering and calling sinners to repentance thus working to make them mature as they abide in Jesus Christ. Questions? Send your Truth in Love questions to info@biblicalcounseling.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Nature of Biblical Counseling on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, |
| 0:14.5 | a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.9 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.8 | And this week, I am joined once again by my friend, Dr. Sam Stevens, who is the director of our |
| 0:28.9 | Training Center certification here at ACBC. He's also a faculty member here at Midwestern Baptist |
| 0:34.7 | Theological Seminary. I'm delighted that he's here again with me. |
| 0:38.2 | We have some semi-exciting news, Sam, to talk about today. We've been working on proposals for books |
| 0:45.2 | and that sort of thing. One of the things that's come out of that is a definition of biblical counseling. |
| 0:50.3 | And we understand with definitions as we talk about definitions, they're important, number one, |
| 0:56.3 | but when you write something down on paper, it's always easy for it to be scrutinized. |
| 1:01.6 | And that's okay, because we're not perfect. We're going to put something out there as a definition. |
| 1:05.9 | We do think it's important that we clearly define what we mean when we're describing biblical counseling. |
| 1:12.4 | And so we've made an attempt to do that. And what I'd like for us to do, Sam, is to talk |
| 1:17.5 | through over the next several podcasts that we do together to talk through that definition, |
| 1:23.3 | because it's important that we define our terms, we define what we mean. Those things are helpful. |
| 1:29.9 | Those things do become exclusionary, but for a good purpose because we're defining what we mean |
| 1:35.6 | and we're not unnecessarily excluding anyone or anything, but we're trying to say this is what |
| 1:42.1 | we mean when we use this definition, and there's nothing in the |
| 1:45.0 | world wrong with that, and not all forms of counseling, not even all forms of Christian counseling, |
| 1:49.8 | would fall under this definition, and that's okay. We would just say clearly that that falls |
| 1:55.4 | into a different camp. We can be your friend and have lunch, but when we use the term biblical |
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