TIL 454: Counseling a Lying Counselee (feat. Josh Greiner)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
1. Common reasons people lie in counseling.
2. What to do if you are concerned a counselee is lying.
3. What to do if a counselee confesses that they have been lying.
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| 0:00.0 | Counseling, a lying counsellee on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.2 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.3 | This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with me, Pastor Josh Griner. He's originally |
| 0:27.2 | from Indiana. He went to Purdue University, where he received his BA and political science. |
| 0:33.2 | During his time at Purdue, he received biblical counseling from Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana, and he |
| 0:38.0 | was introduced to the biblical counseling movement. After graduating from Purdue, one of the pastors |
| 0:42.6 | on staff encouraged him to consider going to into ministry. Eventually, he enrolled in Faith Bible |
| 0:48.4 | seminary, where he received his MDIV. While at Faith, he met his wife, Shanna, and they have |
| 0:53.8 | four children. After spending 10 years on staff at Faith, he met his wife, Shanna, and they have four children. After spending 10 |
| 0:55.8 | years on staff at Faith, Josh now serves as a lead pastor of Berean Baptist in Portage, Michigan. |
| 1:02.7 | And he was certified in 2009 with ACBC, serves as a fellow with ACBC, and teaches in the |
| 1:08.8 | MABC program at Faith Bible Seminary. |
| 1:11.8 | Josh, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:13.6 | Dr. Johnson, it's great to be with you here today. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, man, I'm looking forward to this discussion. |
| 1:18.4 | This is one where it's a little bit awkward when you're dealing with a counsellee who |
| 1:22.4 | either is not telling the full truth or you start to speculate that they're telling lies. And I have students |
| 1:28.4 | all the time who ask me, Dr. Johnson, what do I do in moments like that? Do I just pause and start |
| 1:33.7 | asking questions? So I'm looking forward to seeing how we're going to deal with this today, Josh. |
| 1:37.7 | I'm going to start in this particular place. What are some of the common reasons or desires that |
| 1:43.1 | you think lead people to lie or not tell the truth in a counseling session? |
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