Civic righteousness and biblical 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, Marshall Adkins. He serves as assistant professor

of biblical counseling at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. And he's also

a certified counselor with ACBC. He's married to Rachel, and they have three children.

Marshall, it's good to have you back,

brother, on the podcast and talking about the subject of civic righteousness in the context of counseling and how we think about that. So welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Dale. Great to be on.

Marshall, one of the things I think would be helpful for us to acknowledge. And I say this all the time

in my teaching when I'm talking about those who do

integrated practice. You don't come into counseling or have an interest in counseling and trying

to help people because you hate them, right? You don't move into a work like this where you're

going to hear people's problems because you think you're going to manipulate them or you're going to

harm them. That's never the goal. Tell me how you think about that because as we talk about

this subject and obviously it would become a critique of how we think about others that we might

disagree with, we're not saying that what they're doing is intentionally moving in a direction

of harm. So just give your

thoughts about that idea. Yeah, I think that's really important because, you know, when we're

talking about Christian integrationists, Christian psychologists, or those who would claim to

be biblical counselors that would disagree with the way I'm presenting these things today, I think it's

important to acknowledge that these are

brothers and sisters who profess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that we agree on a lot more

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