honoring Jay Adams 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.

Now, many of you may already know that the founder of New Thetic counseling and the leader and

founder of Nank or now ACBC passed away on November the 14th, Dr. Jay Adams.

And I want to spend this time today doing exactly what Scripture calls us to do in Hebrews

13-7.

Remember your leaders, those who spoke the Word of God to you, consider the outcome of

their way of life and imitate their faith.

I think it's appropriate even on this week of Thanksgiving that we honor Jay and that we demonstrate

gratitude. There are a thousand ways that we can be thankful and grateful. And one of the ways that

scripture tells us to be grateful is that we honor

those who have passed the Word of God down to us. I can remember the first time that I met Jay

Adams. It actually wasn't by a handshake. It wasn't even visually seeing him. I met him through

his words. I met him as many of you have done through

his books. I was a college student in my sophomore year at college. And I remember sitting in my

psychology class, introduction to psychology. I was fascinated. I was absolutely intrigued, but I was also

believer. And as a believer who understood the scriptures, certainly not extra mature, I would say,

but I knew Christ and I knew His Word. And sitting in those classes, I just began to hear

a very different narrative about who man is.

That psychology had understood man to be something very different, but I was struggling.

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