TIL 530: Means of Grace and Biblical Counseling (feat. Eric Abisror)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
1. What is the importance of the ministry of the Word and the Church in biblical counseling?
2. What are the means of grace?
3. What are some examples of how these are significant in the life of the believer?
4. How do we think about justification in relation to counseling?
5. How do we think about the Lord's Supper in relation to counseling?
6. How do we implement these concepts in the homework we give?
7. What are some ways we are tempted to professionalize these concepts in counseling?
8. How can we stand against the world with its secular methodologies and uphold the ministry of the church in bibilcal counseling?
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| 0:00.0 | Means of Grace and Biblical Counseling on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.1 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.3 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Eric Abresor. |
| 0:24.0 | He is married to Danica. |
| 0:25.8 | They have five kids, all boys. |
| 0:28.8 | And Eric has served with reaching and teaching ministries in Cordoba, Argentina for the last seven years. |
| 0:34.8 | He's one of the pastors at Iglesia Kresir, academic director and professor at William |
| 0:40.3 | Carey Seminary, and he's one of our Spanish-speaking fellows here at ACBC. He's finishing up his |
| 0:46.6 | Ph.D. in biblical counseling here at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Eric, welcome to |
| 0:52.2 | podcasts. Thanks, Dale. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, always good to catch up. I'm really looking forward to our topic today and just paying |
| 0:58.7 | attention, going back to some basic fundamentals in how we think about biblical counseling |
| 1:03.6 | and the means that God uses consistently to encourage our hearts and to change us, actually. |
| 1:10.2 | So I want us to talk about this as a foundation. |
| 1:13.6 | It's certainly not ACBC as a parish church organization. |
| 1:17.4 | Our goal is to encourage churches in the work that they are called to do. |
| 1:21.7 | That is the Lord's plan in the way in which they minister the Word of God. |
| 1:25.6 | So I want you to talk a little bit about the importance |
| 1:28.1 | of a word-centered church, the importance of finding a place at which we have the word as the central |
| 1:35.1 | point, both in public and private ministry, and how that word, that ministry of the word at a church |
| 1:41.7 | relates to biblical counseling. That's a good question. Obviously, |
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