TIL 352: How Not to Counsel: Learning from Job's Friends (feat. Brad Brandt)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
1. 15 mistakes of Job's friends
2. The dangers of misusing right theology in the wrong situation
3. Counseling pitfalls to avoid
4. How the book of Job points to Christ
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You can find Brad's message from the 2019 Pre-conference here
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| 0:00.0 | How Not to Counsel, learning from Job's friends on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:18.4 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that |
| 0:21.8 | people face. This week on the podcast, I am delighted to have with me, Dr. Brad Brandt. He's the pastor |
| 0:28.9 | of Wheelersburg Baptist Church, and he's been there for 34 years as a pastor. What a faithful |
| 0:34.7 | testimony that is. He's married to his wife, Sherry. They have two |
| 0:38.3 | children and most importantly, possibly, three grandchildren. And we're not going to let him talk |
| 0:44.0 | about that today. He'll go off on that and we'll be over our allotment of time. But Brad, I want |
| 0:49.7 | you to talk to us today if we can about how not to counsel. Sometimes we don't think about this as an |
| 0:56.0 | important issue, but the Bible gives us instruction and even demonstration biblically on so many |
| 1:01.8 | things that we need to do by way of how we need to approach people in counseling, how we understand |
| 1:07.0 | them and that sort of thing. But the Bible also gives us some really helpful instruction and demonstration on how not to approach counseling. So as we talk about today's |
| 1:15.9 | podcast and our topic, talk to us a little bit about the backdrop. What does this conversation |
| 1:20.9 | look like? And why is it important for us as counselors? Does some times even consider how not |
| 1:26.7 | to counsel from the scripture. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, several years ago, Dale, I was leading our church family through the book of Job on a |
| 1:33.9 | Wednesday evening series, and I came to chapter 42, verse 7, where the Lord says concerning |
| 1:40.6 | to Eliphaz that you have not spoken of me what is right. And I remember thinking about |
| 1:46.3 | that. God said that Elifaz and his two friends had not spoken and was right, and he was very |
| 1:52.7 | angry with them. So I thought, I do a lot of speaking to people. I wonder what God would have to say |
| 1:58.1 | about the counsel I give. So I backed up into the book and started |
| 2:01.0 | looking for evidences of things that were not pleasing to God. What were those things he was not |
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