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Episode 288: Lies My Therapist Told Me w/ Greg Gifford
What happens when the world’s understanding of the human mind conflicts with the truth of God’s Word? And how should Christians respond to the growing influence of secular therapeutic culture?
In this episode of The Postscript Show, Brandon Briscoe sits down with Greg Gifford, author of Lies My Therapist Told Me, to examine the assumptions behind modern mental-health diagnoses, the influence of psychological labels, and the differences between secular therapeutic frameworks and biblical counseling.
Together, they discuss how our understanding of the human person shapes the way we interpret suffering, emotions, behavior, and personal struggles. They also consider the potential consequences of diagnostic labels, particularly for children, and why Christian parents need discernment when navigating testing, diagnoses, and counseling recommendations.
But this conversation goes beyond criticism. How can Christians minister to people experiencing hardship? What role should Scripture play in understanding the human condition? And how can believers distinguish between practical help and a worldview that conflicts with biblical truth?
Brandon and Greg explore the importance of biblical anthropology, the renewal of the mind, and the church’s responsibility to equip believers to disciple others through difficult circumstances. They also discuss how Christians can thoughtfully evaluate secular counseling while recognizing the importance of careful, discerning decisions about mental-health care.
Whether you are a pastor, parent, biblical counselor, or Christian seeking to understand these issues more faithfully, this conversation challenges you to examine the assumptions shaping contemporary views of the human person and to consider the transformative work of God’s Word.
As Brandon emphasizes at the close of the episode, we encourage you to test the claims of Scripture and consider how God’s Word can renew your mind and bring lasting change to your life and family.
About Greg Gifford:
Greg Gifford is the author of Lies My Therapist Told Me (available by following the link), a book examining the assumptions of modern therapeutic culture from a biblical perspective.
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Episode 186: How to Build a Biblical Counseling Ministry in Your Church
Therapy and psychoanalytic forms of counseling are a billion dollar industry in the United States. There are millions of Christians every year who are looking for help with their emotional and behavioral problems from non-Christian counselors. These are people who have no biblical interest or spiritual insight and are in fact in many cases hostile to our faith. Even Christian counselors are often not biblical in their approach, and and sometimes encourage their counselees to deconstruct their faith and train them and teach them to deflect their issues back onto the church - the church that maybe has loved them and cared for them over the years but somehow has become a problem. There are many Christian counselors who practice in this manner.
Counseling as an industry itself is intended to self-perpetuate by keeping people locked into normalizing their problems so that there is no way of having absolute victory over reckoning things in their life and finding the solution they need.
Today, we want to ask the questions, "what if the church reclaimed its responsibility to counsel the hurting people within their churches?" and, "what if the local church was trained and prepared to receive the hurting, and no longer had to refer hurting congregants outside of the church to find help.” We've invited professional counselor and faculty professor of biblical counseling at Living Faith Bible Institute, Jonathan Kindler, to sit down with us and to have a conversation about what it looks like for the church to take back the role of counselor. Specifically, we discuss both the need for the church to counsel its own members together with a Bible principle guided framework for doing so.
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