The Art of Admonishing 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. This week on the podcast, I want to address this issue of admonition. This is obviously a

very critical word in the scripture, particularly as it relates to the way we think about

counsel or counseling, and the way we think about discipleship even. It's a very important word, but it's

interesting to me how we in biblical counseling, particularly those who wear the ACBC stripe,

are often stereotyped or even labeled, that the admonition is really the only work that we do.

Admonition really is an art, but it's a biblical idea. It's not something we should

shy away from. And here's the thing that I want us to be cautioned about. And I'm going to talk about

this broadly at the beginning, and then I want to bring that into the counseling room as we

think about admonition and the importance of it. Jude, verse three, tells us to contend for the faith.

And I think that's an important piece. As I look around social media in different places,

that people giving critiques, and it's often really interesting at how quickly critiques are

dismissed of different philosophies or different ideas. And we do a fair

amount of critique even on the podcast or from ACBC. We think it's a part of our job to make sure

that we're contending for the faith. And that contending for the faith takes a couple of different

forms, much like it would in the counseling room for many of you. You're contending for the faith takes a couple of different forms, much like it would in the counseling

room for many of you. You're contending for the faith in relation to this individual. And part of what

you're trying to do is you're trying to help them to think rightly about the things that they are

engaged in. You're helping them to think biblically. And sometimes what that means

is you're correcting their unbiblical ideas. Well, that's the same idea when we try to look at

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