TIL 482: Counseling in a Bicultural Context (feat. Manuel Herrara)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
1. What has been your experience in counseling in a bicultural context?
2. How can we be culturally sensitive but not compromising of biblical truth?
3. What are some specific challenges to working in different cultural contexts?
4. What are some practical stragies to work through cultural norms and biblical truths?
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| 0:00.0 | Counseling in a bicultural context on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:18.0 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.8 | This week on the podcast I have with me Manuel Herrera. Manny is ACBC certified counselor. He's a part of |
| 0:30.0 | the Spanish biblical counseling ministry at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He also |
| 0:35.1 | graduated from medical school in Mexico, and I will also tell you |
| 0:39.3 | that he is a musician. I was with him in Argentina and got to hear his skill and ability and |
| 0:45.8 | gifting from the Lord in music. It's been good to get to know, Mani. Welcome to the podcast, |
| 0:51.1 | brother. Thank you so much, Dale. It's a blessing to me to be here with you. |
| 0:55.8 | Well, it's fun as we think about the different contexts that the Lord puts us in. |
| 1:00.5 | You, as I mentioned, are at Grace Community Church and in Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:07.3 | What a maybe not just bicultural, but multicultural context. And, you know, that brings different |
| 1:13.0 | challenges. The truth of the Word of God never changes, no matter the time, place, or |
| 1:18.3 | historical period we find ourselves in. But we see that sometimes those experiences that we have |
| 1:24.9 | can be a little bit different in how we view them because |
| 1:27.6 | a cultural background or whatever. |
| 1:29.3 | So I want you to talk a little bit about this. |
| 1:31.1 | Your experience in this area, being from Mexico yourself, not living in the U.S. |
| 1:35.1 | in a very multicultural context. |
| 1:37.6 | What's been your experience, man? |
| 1:38.7 | We just help us here in counseling in a bicultural or multicultural context. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, thank you for asking this particular issue. |
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