What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is

Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's

University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford. I'm your host. And today we're

talking about ministry burnout. You know, this is something that you guys wrote in and asked about.

It's, it is my life to a certain degree. And it's something that as a pastor, missionary, ministry

worker, really, I mean, you could just say

as a bivocational Christian, which all of you are, you're serving and working, and then

you're also volunteering in church.

And everyone listening to this podcast, that is true for you.

Whether that means ministry full-time or part-time or bivocational or lay,

there were multiple questions that came in just talking through, like, how do we protect against

it? What are some warning signs of ministry burnout? And really, who's to blame? I mean, it would

be nice to just say, well, I work at a ministry that uses me, and I don't

actually pause and say, but wait a minute, do I actually contribute to the problem in some way?

So today I hope to address all of those, and this will be a two-part series.

So today's episode and next episode, we will work through not only the

internal things that we need to consider in ministry burnout, but the external things, the things that are in

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