Four Ways to Grow in Counseling Practice 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 joined by Dr. Stuart Scott. He is

professor of biblical counseling at the Masters University. He's also on staff here at

ACBC as our director of membership services. Stuart's been a member of ACBC for many years.

He's been a fellow, served as a fellow for many years.

And this week, what we want to do is we want to try to accomplish encouragement to our counselors,

particularly our members, as we think about what are some best practices,

what are some ways in which we want to continue to

encourage our people to counsel with excellence. I mean, as a part of what we do, we say we're

pursuing excellence. And there are several ways that we can accomplish that. And I think sometimes,

Stuart, what happens is, you know, we've been doing counseling for quite some time,

or maybe we're just still starting out, and we just finished certification.

And so we're sort of content with where we are, and we're going to just counsel with what we know.

And even if we've been doing it a long time, we feel a little bit more comfortable, and sometimes we cease growing.

And Paul seems to encourage us to continue our growth in knowledge and understanding of the

scripture, in the application, and I think, you know, from where you sit and what the

Lord has done in you and through you, in our organization, as a fellow, you've supervised a lot.

As director of membership services've you've heard complaints from many of our

counselors and and let's be honest even though we we pursue excellence and we have a

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