TIL 510: Boundaries in Counseling (feat. Jim Newheiser)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
1. Why has this concept become so prevelant in the context of counseling?
2. Is this concept of boundaries a biblical notion?
3. What are the positive things we can gather from Townsend relating to this concept of boundaries?
4. How do we set limits in boundaries based on a biblical foundation?
5. Should the book on boundaries by Townsend form our primary lens in veiwing this concept?
6. How would you advise a biblical counselor to set biblical boundaries?
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| 0:00.0 | Boundaries and Counseling on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.7 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:21.4 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Jim Neuheiser. |
| 0:25.4 | He's the director of the Christian counseling program and professor of Christian counseling |
| 0:29.2 | and pastoral theology at RTS in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
| 0:33.3 | For 25 years, Dr. Neuheiser served as a preaching pastor at Grace Bible Church in Escondido, |
| 0:38.4 | California. He's also the director of the Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship, |
| 0:43.6 | which was formerly CCF West. And he is also served as an adjunct professor of biblical counseling |
| 0:48.6 | at the Master's University. Furthermore, Dr. Neuheiser serves as a board member at both the |
| 0:53.0 | Biblical Counseling Coalition and the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. Dr. Neuheiser serves as a board member at both the Biblical Counseling |
| 0:54.1 | Coalition and the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. Dr. Newheiser teaches many of the counseling |
| 0:59.1 | courses as well as some practical theology courses, and he has also been married to his wife, |
| 1:04.0 | Caroline, since 1979, and they have three adult children. Jim, it's so good to see you on the |
| 1:09.4 | podcast today and looking forward to our conversation. Thank you, Del. Now, it's so good to see you on the podcast today and looking |
| 1:11.0 | forward to our conversation. Thank you, Del. Now, I want to talk today about boundaries. This is a |
| 1:16.3 | huge topic and even, you know, I've personally been critical of this concept boundaries, especially |
| 1:22.0 | in relation to Henry Cloud's classic work. But I want to talk today about this concept, and I'm not sure 100% Jim, where you might |
| 1:29.8 | want to go, but I want to talk specifically about how we think about boundaries in the |
| 1:34.4 | counseling rooms. |
| 1:35.5 | Talk about why this concept of boundaries really has become so popular in Christian counseling. |
| 1:42.5 | Yeah, Dale, I think that like the Cloud and Townsend book |
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