TIL 463: Guidance and the Will of God in Counseling (feat. Marshall Adkins)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
1. Key issues in considering the guidance and will of God in counseling.
2. Guidance in biblical decision making
3. Biblical principles in decision making
4. Trusting God in biblical decisions made
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For resources on this topic please see the following:
Jay E. Adams, The Christian’s Guide to Guidance: How to Make Biblical Decisions in Everyday Life (Cordova, TN: Institute for Nouthetic Studies, 1998).
Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2009).
Garry Friesen and J. Robin Maxson, Decision Making and the Will of God, Rev. ed. (New York: Multnomah, 2004).
Stuart Scott, Biblical Manhood: Masculinity, Leadership and Decision Making (Bemidji, MN: Focus Publishing, 2009).
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| 0:00.0 | guidance and the will of God in counseling on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:16.4 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people |
| 0:20.6 | face. Today I have with me, Marshall Adkins to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.0 | Today I have with me, Marshall Adkins. He serves at Midwestern as assistant professor of biblical |
| 0:28.3 | counseling, and I'm so grateful that he's here with us in Kansas City. He's also the assistant |
| 0:32.9 | director of the Center for Biblical Counseling here at Midwestern. He's married to Rachel, |
| 0:37.1 | and they have three children. He's finishing up our doctoral program. I'm really looking forward to the work that he's producing there. I'm sure we will hear more on that at a later date. But today, our task is to talk about this issue of guidance. Marshall, welcome to the podcast. I'm looking forward to this. Thanks, Dale. It's great to be here. Appreciate having me on. Well, one of the key things, Marshall, as we think about biblical counseling, |
| 0:58.5 | is the work and role of the Holy Spirit. This has been one of the defining, distinguishing markers |
| 1:03.4 | of biblical counseling since its inception, at least since it's modern inception. And we think about |
| 1:09.3 | Jay bringing back this idea that the Holy Spirit and the |
| 1:12.8 | word is necessary for true guidance and counseling. And how do we think about the work of the Holy |
| 1:18.5 | Spirit? I mean, we even see those who believe in a more integrated position where the work of the |
| 1:24.1 | Holy Spirit is something that may or may not be necessary in order to make a person |
| 1:27.7 | whole. And that dictates the way in which we think about counseling. So I want us to talk about |
| 1:32.2 | this issue today as we think about guidance, how we are guided, the beauty of the sufficiency |
| 1:37.9 | of Scripture in relation to guidance. How does that work with the role and power of the Holy |
| 1:42.8 | Spirit in our lives personally? So let's get this thing rolling. And we'll start here. What are some of the key issues, at least in your mind, to think through biblically, especially when we think or talk about this issue of guidance and the will of God? Yeah, I'm really glad we're talking about this topic. I think it's really important and also very relevant to our counseling |
| 2:01.1 | and counseling relationships. So I think that is the place to start. We want to step back and |
| 2:05.5 | think about what are some of the key biblical issues to think through and really biblical |
| 2:10.8 | presuppositions and doctrinal things that we need to have in place to have a productive |
| 2:16.8 | conversation about this and to think |
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