We seek to strengthen the Church to speak the truth in love by providing a quality training and certification process, a global network of like-minded individuals and institutions, and a source of practical and biblical resources for the Church.
In short, we seek to bring biblical solutions for the problems people face, upholding that the method God has given to do this is truth in love.
As a certifying organization, we are committed to providing a distinguished level of quality control in the biblical counseling movement. That means that one of the most significant tasks of ACBC is to set, sanction, and maintain the standards for counseling excellence. Our Standards of Doctrine and Standards of Conduct are the standards for counseling excellence that every member of ACBC must embrace as a condition of their ongoing involvement in our organization.
Read the convictions that guide ACBC in counseling ministry.
We believe that counseling is fundamentally a theological task. The work of understanding the problems which require counseling and of helping people with those problems requires theological faithfulness and submission to the way God explains life. Therefore, we hold to a summary of Christian doctrine which we believe represents biblical standards that biblical counselors must embrace to do their work faithfully.
We believe that counseling must join accurate theology with godly character in order to honor the Lord Jesus and provide competent care. Therefore, ACBC is committed to setting standards of counseling excellence. At ACBC we seek to maintain quality at every level in our organization to ensure that each counselee receives solid biblical counsel by our certified members.
We believe the contents of Scripture speak with authoritative relevance to the content of counseling conversations. Therefore, we hold that the Bible sufficiently informs the structure and content of counseling relationships.
We believe the church is the primary context for soul care, and that we must recover the church’s responsibility to provide care for sufferers and sinners. Therefore, we encourage and support the indispensable ministry of biblical counseling as an expression of church life.
Senior Pastor at Grace Fellowship Church
Director of the Biblical Counseling Center of Maui
Professor of Biblical Counseling at the Master’s University
Professor of Biblical Counseling at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Counselee
ACBC Certified Counselor