TIL 504: Expressive Individualism (feat. Brent Osterberg)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
1. What is the idea or concept of expressive individualism?
2. What are some of the ways expressive individualism shows up in our culture and our church?
3. What are some of the dangers of expressive individualism?
4. What are some biblical truths we use in counseling through expressive individualism?
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| 0:00.0 | Expressive individualism on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.6 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:21.5 | This week, I'm delighted to have with me on the podcast, Brent Osterberg. |
| 0:25.8 | He served as pastor at Living Hope Bible Church in Mansfield, Texas since 2015. |
| 0:31.9 | He has an MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a D-Men in expository preaching from the Master's Seminary. |
| 0:38.3 | He's been an ACBC certified counselor since 2009, and he serves with the Center for Biblical |
| 0:43.2 | Counseling and Discipleship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He's been married to Carrie for 21 years, |
| 0:48.2 | and they have three children. Brother, so good to have you back on the podcast. Looking forward to |
| 0:53.5 | our time together today. Thank you, Dale. I appreciate it. Now, we good to have you back on the podcast. Looking forward to our time together today. |
| 0:54.9 | Thank you, Dale. I appreciate it. Now, we need to start here with what in the world is this idea or |
| 1:01.1 | concept of expressive individualism. I think about this a lot because what I'm describing, right, |
| 1:06.6 | by this term is something that's a part of the ethos. It's sort of the air we breathe in the world |
| 1:12.7 | that we live in, particularly in America. But just for us defining terms, what is expressive |
| 1:18.0 | individualism? Yeah, it sounds intimidating, right? But it is. I like what you said. It's kind of the |
| 1:22.7 | spirit of our age. Carl Truman has written on this quite a bit in the last few years, his book, The Rise and |
| 1:29.4 | Triumph of the Modern Self. One of the quotes that Carl Truman gives about expressive individualism, |
| 1:33.9 | I find helpful. He says, in order to be fulfilled, in order to be an authentic person, I need to be |
| 1:41.4 | able to express outwardly that which I feel I am inside. |
| 1:45.0 | And so in order for you to be satisfied, in order to you to be a self-actualized kind of person, |
| 1:51.0 | you need to live out what you feel most strongly on the inside. |
| 1:55.0 | And so it's this self-defines identity, self-protects that identity, self-prom self promotes that identity at all costs, |
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