A CBC Mailbag 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, Dr. Sam Stevens and Dr. Francine Tan, they're going to

help me answer some questions from our listeners. And I'm so excited about these episodes and the

ways we get to engage with so many of our listeners. It's so helpful to know that you're listening, paying attention,

that it's stimulating, you're thinking, that you have follow-up questions, you're willing

to ask those, and we want to engage some of those today.

I want to start with this one, guys, as we think about a very real scenario.

And this happens all the time. And so I think this is a great question, and it's not

a hypothetical situation. The listener is asking for us to give them some talking points for a

very particular situation, a family member that announces that they are involved in secular

therapy. And this secular therapy, they want to know what is

an appropriate response for a biblical counselor when this happens. And I can see this happening

at Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner or Sunday afternoon dinner or in the foyer at church

or lots of different places that I know I've experienced this same thing.

So let's throw that question out there.

A family member is now engaged in secular therapy.

They're openly talking about this to their family.

And what's a proper response?

Where do we start?

What are some good talking points?

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