The Question
What makes biblical counseling truly biblical?
We all want our biblical counseling to be…biblical!
We often debate whether a given approach is biblical or not.
We’re sometimes unclear about our answer to the question. Occasionally, some have sought to provide a detailed answer to the question,
“What makes biblical counseling truly biblical?”
Some Answers
Today, I’m providing links to four documents (not books) that provide detailed answers to the question about what makes biblical counseling truly biblical.
The Biblical Counseling Coalition’s Confessional Statement
In 2010, the Biblical Counseling Coalition gathered three dozen biblical counseling leaders, who spent ten months developing ten drafts of what became the Biblical Counseling Coalition Confessional Statement. It contains 3,191 words.
You can read the online version here.
You can download the PDF version here.
David Powlison’s Affirmations and Denials: A Proposed Definition of Biblical Counseling
In 2000, David Powlison crafted his article for the Journal of Biblical Counseling on Affirmations and Denials: A Proposed Definition of Biblical Counseling. It contains 5,617 words.
You can read it online here.
You can download the PDF here.
10 Commitments of Redemptive Counselors/Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors
On July 8, 2024, faculty members of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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