TIL 522: Potential Pitfalls of Gospel-Centered Counseling (feat. Omri Miles)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
1. Why should counselors be careful when sharing the Gospel?
2. What are the potential pitfalls?
3. How can our mishandling of the Gospel harm someone?
4. How can counselors avoid some of these pitfalls?
5. What resources have helped you?
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| 0:00.0 | Potential pitfalls of gospel-centered 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 Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.5 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm so delighted to have with me this week, one of my good friends, Omri Miles. I'm so grateful for this |
| 0:27.4 | brother. He serves as the lead pastor of Grace Bible Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds a |
| 0:33.1 | master of divinity degree from the Expositor's Seminary and a Master of Arts and Biblical Counseling |
| 0:38.3 | from the Master's University. He's been certified with ACBC since 2018, and he spent more than 15 |
| 0:45.0 | years in Tempe, Arizona, training for ministry until he was sent to plant this church in New |
| 0:50.1 | Orleans East, where he now lives with his wife, Emily, and their five children. |
| 0:54.5 | Brother, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:55.8 | Looking forward to this topic today. |
| 0:57.3 | Thank you, man. |
| 0:57.8 | It's good to be back. |
| 0:59.0 | And we're talking about gospel-centered counseling. |
| 1:00.9 | And we think about that obviously in positive terms. |
| 1:03.8 | And there's all kinds of reasons to think that this is the way we should be counseling, |
| 1:07.7 | right? |
| 1:08.4 | But we always have to pay attention to what are our strengths |
| 1:11.7 | and what potentially could be our weaknesses. So I want you to talk about all this discussion |
| 1:18.1 | relative to the gospel and how that's a healthy thing. But there are some pitfalls. So why should |
| 1:23.4 | biblical counselors be cautious with something as good as the gospel to us as Christians? |
| 1:29.8 | Well, first of all, the gospel is the very best news that exists. And I think in this discussion |
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