Ten Affirmations
1. We affirm that our modern movement has not arrived; our views are not perfected; our perspectives are not glorified.
2. We affirm the sufficiency of Scriptures, not the sufficiency of a modern movement.
3. We affirm and believe in change: our modern movement can and must keep growing in biblical wisdom and insight (semper reformanda).
4. We affirm and believe in being humbly open to the nouthetic confrontation of our modern movement.
5. We affirm that someone disagreeing with human founders of a human movement is not the same as disagreeing with Scripture.
6. We affirm that it is not heresy for someone to biblically disagree with our human interpretation of what makes biblical counseling truly biblical.
7. We affirm the value of church history: we assess our modern movement biblically and historically; the 2,000-year history of Christian pastoral care and counseling helps us to be church history-informed about what makes biblical counseling truly biblical.
8. We affirm that there is wisdom about counseling in a multitude of counselors: we invite others to mutually engage with our biblical interpretations of what makes biblical counseling truly biblical.
9. We affirm the biblical value of biblical counselors listening well
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