The War on Guilt 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.

This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with us, Dr. John Street. He is professor of

biblical counseling at the Master's University and the Master's Seminary. He's also chairman of our

board of trustees for ACBC. And it's such a delight anytime I get to hang out with Dr.

Street. And so many of you are blessed by his teaching ministry and as he's been in many of your

churches and it's always good to have him on the podcast. He's married to his wife, Janie,

for many, many years. And they have four children and seven grandchildren. I'm so thankful for this brother. And today,

Dr. Street, I think this is an important topic. We're going to talk about the issue of guilt,

really the war that our culture has made on the issue of guilt. And so much confusion exists,

really relative to this idea of guilt, how we think about it, we just want

to get rid of it. We sort of have this allergy, really, to this issue of guilt. And you're

going to help us with a biblical understanding of the issue of guilt. And so I'm looking forward

to this time together. So when we talk about a war on guilt and how we think about

guilt, not necessarily in the church, we'll get to that, but how we think about guilt in the

culture and why this might be a problem facing the church, what do we mean when we talk about

this issue of a war on guilt? I believe this is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts out there in the psychotherapeutic

community and the counseling community at large.

In the secular community, obviously what has happened with guilt is guilt has become the enemy.

And you're doing, they're doing everything that they can in order to

minimize guilt or try to repress guilt, sometimes through drugs, whatever the case may be. Even in the

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