Scripture Comes from the Mouth of God

Well, today we're continuing our series on our seven distinctives, which we've just begun.

Uh, Jonathan Holmes and I had a great conversation with Ed Welch, our colleague, uh, over our first distinctive, the personal God gets personal with us.

And we're excited to dive into our second distinctive today as we just re-articulate our vision at CCEF for biblical care and counseling and one-anothering ministry.

And so I'm glad to be joined once again by Jonathan Holmes, our executive director, as well as Aaron Seroney, a longtime faculty member.

Welcome, gentlemen.

Thanks for having us.

Thank you, Gunnar.

Well, as we get started here, um, I just wanna walk through each time we do this, uh, our seven distinctives briefly just so we can hear them in the fullness of kinda the package that they are together and articulate them, uh, together as a picture.

And so here's the first, the personal God gets personal with us.

Second, which we'll talk about today, scripture comes from the mouth of God.

Third, we are embodied souls shaped by a world of influences.

Fourth, our hearts are active.

Fifth, help and change follow a path but not a script.

Six, care and counsel are pastoral and at home in the church.

And seven, biblical counseling engages with the voices around us.

And if anyone would like to learn more about these distinctives, you can find longer descriptions that explain them on our website at ccef.org/about, ccef.org/about.

Well, as we get started, guys, I would love to start, as we will each time, with reading not only the distinctive itself, scripture comes from the mouth of God, but also to read the description that is, uh, expressing it.

And so here's the description.

"The Spirit presses the very Word of God into our hearts.

He reveals Jesus.

In Jesus, we find all wisdom and goodness.

No one else can so deeply nurture and sustain us.

The Spirit applies scripture to our hearts.

The Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God," First Corinthians two, verse 10.

Here are implications of this truth.