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Back to EpisodesEpisode 65: Psychology and the Chief End of Man (with William Smith)
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How has our culture been influenced by psychology? How has that affected the church? You cannot go very many places in our world and not encounter the definitions and categories that have been handed to us by the psychology establishment. Many Christians- including ourselves as pastors and church leaders- have allowed our anthropology and epistemology to be informed by a broader unbelieving culture: one that has a rival explanation for truth, man, sin, our problems, and the solution. This has had subtle to striking ramifications in how Christians conduct both their formal practice and informal daily discipleship of those around them.
William (Bill) Smith joins Kari Gross to discuss how psychology has infiltrated the way Christian people think about themselves and their problems. Bill has pastored several churches, been a faculty member of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation, and taught practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is the author of Parenting with Words of Grace, along with numerous other books and booklets. He and his wife, Sally, have three adult children who are married.
In this episode, Bill warns about how science, psychology, and culture have impacted the church and offers gospel hope for living in a sinful world with broken bodies, minds, and relationships.
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Resources:
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Listen to our previous episode with Bill: Episode 40: Guiding the Culture of Your Church (with William Smith)
A note to listeners:
Bill made a comment at the end of the episode and we recognize it may have confused some listeners. We want to clarify what Bill intended to communicate. He said “Kari, you and I are looking at 70 billion years of life, we have hardly begun to explore who we are and what all God has envisioned for us.” Bill meant this in a future tense as a way of saying, “We are looking at eternal life.” A concrete number often helps people grasp and also be appropriately struck with bewilderment at what eternity means. There is joy we eagerly anticipate in that reality for those in Christ: we are going to have so much time to keep learning and developing and exploring all that God has made, including what He has built into each of us.
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