The Counselor's Hidden Sins on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in 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, we're going to do something a little different, maybe not rare, but a little

bit unusual and different.

And that is, we're going to dip into our mailbag.

Recently, we sent out requests for you, our listeners, to give us some ideas on topics for

the podcast.

And wow, you guys gave us some really, really great topics. And I'm looking forward to covering these in succession over the next few months,

several months. And one of those is the issue of hidden sins of the counselor. And I thought

this really intriguing, especially when we talk about biblical counseling,

I suppose with secular counseling and the view of expertise as being what guides the counseling

practice and the mode of counseling, that these types of hidden faults are okay. But that's not

so in biblical counseling. I want to address that if we can today.

In a secular setting, there's no need to be transparent. There's no need to have some sort of

dual relationship with your quote-unquote client. But in biblical counseling, it is quite different.

We are talking about a spiritual relationship that pursues spiritual benefit.

And so this is really important, especially when we look at Romans 1514, where the scripture

tells us what prepares us and readies us to be able to admonish those who are full of goodness,

Romans 1514 says. So I want to address this issue today for all of us. And listen,

none of us as counselors, just because we do formal counseling with others or we're in a position

where we're mentoring and guiding and giving biblical wisdom to others, that doesn't make us

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