How to Avoid a Lawsuit 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.

I can't tell you how excited I am to launch us into this week and to have our speaker here with us,

Todd Sorrell. He's a dear brother. We are excited about the work that's being done.

Many of you may remember that he spoke at our pre-conference last year in 2020, talking about biblical counseling and legal issues. And he's back, giving us some great wisdom on legal issues once again. And we're excited as we look forward to our book that's coming out, free to be the church,

legal issues and biblical counseling.

And Todd is a contributor to this volume that I think is very important.

And Todd and I were even discussing before we got on here live.

And I tell you what, Todd, one of the interesting things to me as we think about legal issues is pastors are very afraid.

And particularly after what we've been through, the season that we've been through, it seems to have ramped up a little bit of fear relative to legal issues.

And it's not that they don't want to do ministry or they want to be hindered by the things that they're called to do from God,

but there is this sense at which they don't want to make a mistake.

And a lot of that's unintended.

A lot of it may be out of ignorance, just not knowing what they should or shouldn't do,

wanting to obey the law.

But often we find ourselves, even as pastors, getting paralyzed in some of these ways.

And so I'm so glad that you're here to help us to understand the issue of legalities,

particularly as it relates to lawsuits and being sued.

And so let's just launch off into this.

I want to ask the first question.

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