Doxological counseling 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 have with me Omri Miles.

Omri is a pastor of Grace Bible Church in Tempe, Arizona.

He holds a Master of Arts degree in biblical counseling from the Master's University

and a Master of Divinity degree from the Expositor's Seminary.

Currently serves as a director of one of our

certified training centers, biblical counseling of the East Valley, and he lives in Phoenix with

his wife, Emily, and their five children. Brother, it's so good to have you. Here you've been a frequent

breakout speaker for us and looking forward to your breakout coming up in the future as well.

I'm so grateful to now finally have you on the podcast. Yeah, this is great. Thank you for having me down. Now, I'm going to need a little bit of an explanation on where we're going here for the doxological counseling. And so I think maybe for everyone else, I understand what doxology means. I understand what counseling means. And I can't wait to hear how you're going to describe

what that means when we put it together. So what do you mean, Omri, by this term,

doxological counseling?

Doctological. That word really just means having to do with worship or praise.

And so I like to think about that actually happening in counseling. That is what

counseling is about. And so doxological counseling is really instructing worshipers to the praise and

glory of God. That's a little bit of a double meaning. The way I like to think of it is that the

counselor in counseling is doing that very thing.

His very act of counseling is an act of worship.

So when we're instructing others, we're intending all of our instruction to be to the praise and glory of God.

We want God to be known.

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