Preaching as Soul Care 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 to the problems that people face.

And this week on the podcast is such a delight to have with us, Pastor Kevin DeYoung.

I'm so grateful for this brother and his work at Christ's Covenant Church as the pastor there in Matthews, North Carolina.

He's also a associate professor of systematic theology at Re Reform Theological Seminary in Charlotte,

North Carolina, which, by the way, is one of our ACBC training centers. He's been a pastor

for a number of years since 2004, previously in Michigan, and now in Charlotte. And I'm so

grateful for this brother, the voice that he brings to our evangelical community,

and the way in which he speaks is with clarity, with grace, but with the authority that comes

from the scripture. And I'm so grateful for this. I invited him this year to speak at our

ACBC annual conference on a very important topic, this issue of preaching as soul care.

And listen, guys, in ACBC, we have this

tendency sometimes to think about counseling, and it's a wonderful thing, but we cannot forget

that counseling has never intended to be some professionalized ministry. It's never intended to be

something that's separated from the ministry of the local church, and it's intended to flow out

of all the functions that God has given to the church.

Primary among those in following Christ as a head is the proclamation of the Word of Christ.

And this is something that as a faithful brother, Pastor DeYoung, does every week as he preaches the word to his people.

And so I wanted to invite him to

speak on this subject because I think it's a critical explanation of the beauty of the purposes

of preaching is exaltation of Christ and the beauty of the way in which the word cares for the

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