when the church doesn't care well 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, I just want to take maybe just a few

minutes, and I want us to discuss sort of the opposite of what I talk about all the time. I talk

all the time about the beauty of the church. I talk all the time about wanting to reclaim this

idea of the church as a culture of care truly, as the entity that's responsible, the institution

that is responsible to God for caring for the souls of humanity. I think it's also important

for us to be able to see the beauty of the church in its functions, in the way in which it honors

God and ministers on behalf of God to those who are hurting

and broken and have wounded hearts. I think it's also equally important to see and maybe

contemplate when the church doesn't do this aspect well. I think we've been really in a season

for several generations where the church has not done

this particularly well. Now, I'm not saying every church, but the church at large has not done

this maybe super well. We've abdicated our responsibility. So what are some of the consequences?

Unintended as though they might be, what are some of those

consequences? And I think it's important for us to consider those so that we see sort of what's at

stake and how the church is responsible to do this work of soul care, or how the church will give an

account to the Lord for how we handle the care of souls.

So if we consider, what are some of the things that hinder the church from caring well?

And what are some of the implications?

Now, before we get into this, I am not saying at all that those who are a part of the church

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