TIL 441: Counseling Besetting Sins (feat. Lance Quinn)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
1. A biblical definition of "besetting" sins.
2. Wisdom for approaching particular or besetting sins biblically.
3. Common misconceptions surrounding besetting sins.
4. The hope for true and lasting change found in the gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | Counseling Besetting Sin on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.6 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.6 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Lance Quinn. He is the vice president of the |
| 0:27.2 | Expositor's Seminary and on the pastoral team of Grace Emmanuel Bible Church in Jupiter, Florida. |
| 0:33.2 | He has been involved with biblical counseling movement for over 30 years, having served as a fellow and a board member of ACBC for 25 of those years. |
| 0:42.8 | Lance and his late wife, Beth, have eight adult children and currently 15 grandchildren and counting. |
| 0:49.9 | And counting. |
| 0:50.8 | Bring these beautiful little babies on. Come on. |
| 0:54.5 | That's really. |
| 0:55.0 | Keep going. |
| 0:55.6 | That's great. |
| 0:56.3 | Grandfather would like to hold those babies and rock those babies. |
| 0:59.9 | That is so cool. |
| 1:00.9 | Lance, thank you again for being with us on the podcast. |
| 1:03.5 | Interesting topic that we're going to tackle today, this issue of besetting sin and how we think about this. |
| 1:10.4 | And this could really be a paradigm |
| 1:12.9 | shaping aid to us today as we talk through this. So, Lance, what do you say to a person who's |
| 1:19.6 | seeking your counsel for particular, as the scripture sort of describes, it's a besetting sin? |
| 1:25.0 | One, that this person thinks they may never, ever get over and conquer. |
| 1:28.9 | They just try to manage. |
| 1:31.0 | I think that it's a term besetting sin that comes from the older English translations of Hebrews |
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