Something many people don’t realize about Biblical Counseling Center is that most of our staff counselors were first students in our online school, or interns as they finished advanced graduate level training in counseling.

Recently, we added Mark Johnson to our Indiana Counseling team. As a church elder, Mark took BCC Training nearly 20 years ago to improve his ability to care for and shepherd those in his church more effectively. Watching God at work through these encounters created a passion in him to continue to grow as a biblical counselor and make even more of an impact.

About a year ago, Mark retired from a successful business career, enrolled full time in a Master’s program in biblical Counseling, and determined that his retirement years would be dedicated to spending more time with his family and impacting others in his church and Biblical Counseling Center. I asked Mark to share his story in his own words.

Mark’s Testimony

I grew up in a mainline denomination church in the rural climes of northern Illinois. The period was the 1960s and 1970s, and among mainline denominations, peace and good works were the dominant themes for preaching in the day. The social gospel


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