Great Biblical Counseling Conference

We just finished our annual theological conference with Seminario Carey. This year’s main speaker was David Barceló from Barcelona, Spain. The subject matter of the conference was Biblical counseling.

David’s teaching had a great impact. Argentina is one of the countries of the world with the greatest influence of psychoanalysis. Sadly, this has infiltrated many churches. David showed how secular psychology is in many ways an alternative religion. He also gave a fine presentation on the biblical pattern of change through progressive sanctification. One conference attendee told me that even though he had spent most of his life in church, this conference had just “shattered his paradigms.”

We had attendees from as far away as Asuncion, Paraguay. If the trend continues, this is the last year we will be able to host the conference in our church. The attendance has outgrown the auditorium.

A highlight was seeing the graduation of the first three students from the pastoral training program. One of them was Roberto Romero who already leads the congregation we began in Malvinas. The other two, Esteban and Anibal, are from Buenos Aires. They both have hopes of beginning new works in that area.