A Paper by Nate Brooks, Tate Cockrell, Brad Hambrick,  Kristin Kellen, and Sam Williams 

On July 8, 2024, faculty members of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Biblical Counseling Department released the document:

Ten Commitments of Redemptive Counselors / Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors

The purpose of their document was to describe the core convictions of Redemptive Counselors (RC), also known as Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors (CIBC).

My “Contribution”

I am providing a “cut/paste” of their document minus:

The Introduction Footnotes The Conclusion

For the full document, go to:

Ten Commitments of Redemptive Counselors / Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors

I provided this shortened document so that more people are aware of it, and so that more people might read the ten commitments.

In the cut/paste below, italicized areas have been italicized by me. They are areas that especially stood out to me as conveying central concepts of each of the ten points. Other than that, I am not making any comments on the ten commitments. Lord willing and time and energy allowing, I may do some posts in the future where I engaged with these ten commitments…

I do not label my counseling “Redemptive Counseling” or “Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling.” For my model of biblical


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