Truth In Love · TIL 269: The Goal of Biblical Counseling
Dale Johnson: This week on the podcast, I am once again joined by Dr. Sam Stephens, who is our Director of Training Center Certification. If you recall, last week we were discussing the definition of biblical counseling—or at least one that that Sam and I have proposed. I’m going to read through that again because this is a continuation. We’re going to look at the second part of that definition and dissect that to describe a little bit more detail what we intend to say by this definition.
I’m going to read the whole thing and then that’ll give you an opportunity to sort back through and remember some of the things that we discussed on last week’s podcast and then we’re going to we’re going to hone in on that second section. Here’s the definition that we are proposing:
Biblical counseling is the personal discipleship ministry of God’s people to others under the oversight of God’s church, dependent upon the authority and sufficiency of God’s Word through the work of the Holy Spirit. Biblical counseling seeks to reorient disordered desires, affections, and behaviors toward a God-designed anthropology in
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