Best Practices for Virtual Biblical Counseling on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast with 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 my friend Josh Widman with me.

He's the senior pastor of Grace Chapel in Denver, Colorado.

He also leads the hope of Denver Biblical Counseling Center, which does in-person and virtual

biblical counseling.

In addition, he's a doctoral candidate

at Southern Seminary. He's the father of six children. He's married to Molly. And he recently

released a book on this very topic titled Best Practices of Virtual Biblical Counseling. Josh,

I'm so grateful that you're here. I always have such a wonderful time chatting with you and especially about this particular topic. So thanks for being with me.

Yeah, thanks, Dale. Thanks for calling me a friend. I appreciate the friendship that we share as well. Yeah, wonderful. And I've gotten to know you over the last several years. Just really enjoy the time that we've spent together. We've done a couple of things with the Biblical Counseling Summit,

which I would encourage all of our listeners to check out.

I think some of the topics that we've covered have been really outstanding. So I really appreciate the work that you're doing there in Denver that's reaching much further than Denver, too. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Listen, as we talk about this topic, particularly in the pandemic, we saw really an explosion in virtual counseling. And so I'm so grateful that you've given

some focused attention. You guys there in Denver, the hope of Denver biblical counseling

center, you guys have taken advantage, I think, of this opportunity to refine some of these things.

So talk about in your mind, how is biblical counseling changed with the advancement of technology

and now the

ability to speak in really a face-to-face way virtually?

Well, it's changed drastically.

And obviously the pandemic catapulted people having to figure out how do I counsel without

being able to be in person.

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