Biblical Counseling and Soul Care
Rooted in the Local Church
The Center for Biblical Counseling at Midwestern exists to provide resources, training, and support in order to promote excellence in biblical care and counseling to those in the local church and the community. Our vision is to see biblical counseling and care rooted in the church by equipping Christians to engage the Scriptures for life and to take up the call to counsel the Word of God effectively, compassionately, and comprehensively. Our approach is three-fold: Equipping, Engaging, and Encouraging.
For the Church
Midwestern's Center for Biblical Counseling thoroughly equips counselors in the fundamentals of counseling ministry.
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We seek to provide opportunities for our students to counsel within the context of the local church, the preferred and natural context for this ministry.
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We desire to see every church to foster a culture of care growing in the application and personal ministry of the word to one another. Toward that end, we desire to be a resource for any church interested in learning more about how to begin their own counseling ministry.
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Midwestern’s biblical counseling degrees offer significant training in the principles and methods of biblical counseling, preparing you for service in a local church, biblical counseling center, or wider ministry setting. Our goal is to equip ministers and laypersons to minister biblically within their local churches and communities, making the church the first place people go for help, rather than a last resort.
FTC Cohort
Biblical Counseling Cohort
The biblical counseling cohort offers select, first-year residential biblical counseling students with the opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners while beginning their study of biblical soul care. Students will hear from guest lecturers on a variety of subjects in an environment that promotes discussion and camaraderie while being exposed to various opportunities for additional counseling training through the Center for Biblical Counseling.
The cohort is overseen by Dr. T. Dale Johnson, Jr., the Director of Counseling Programs at Midwestern Seminary and Spurgeon College. As an added benefit, all Biblical Counseling students receive a 100% tuition scholarship for up to 18 on-campus credit hours at the SBC rate during their first year in the program.
Master’s Degrees
Find the graduate program that best prepares you for ministry for the Church.
As a requirement of the Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling (MABC), students enrolled in practicum courses, are required to engage in 50 hours of counseling under the supervision of a counseling faculty member. These students have successfully completed over 20 credit hours of rigorous training and instruction in counseling and have been vetted and approved to offer counseling services.
Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling
The MABC degree provides significant training in the principles and methods of biblical counseling, preparing students for service in local churches, biblical counseling centers, and wider ministry settings. The Residential MABC satisfies all the necessary requirements to become ACBC certified counselors. Global Campus MABC prepares students to pursue certification with ACBC.
Doctoral Degrees
Midwestern offers Biblical Counseling emphases
Undergraduate Degrees
Spurgeon College’s biblical counseling program recognizes the local church as the primary context for the care and cure of souls and God’s sufficient Word as the foundation.
Our undergraduate programs at Spurgeon College are designed to provide you with a a philosophical, ideological, and theological basis of knowledge in the sufficiency of Scripture and its interpretation for the task of counseling and soul care, in service to the biblically mandated mission and ministries of the local church.
For those not interested in pursuing a degree, we also provide seminars and weekend trainings covering a host of topics related to biblical counseling. Keep an eye on Midwestern’s event calendar for one of our trainings!
Benefits
Dale Johnson
Professor of Biblical Counseling, Director of Counseling Programs
T. Dale Johnson, Jr., is the Director of Counseling Programs and Professor of Biblical Counseling at...
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Marshall Adkins
Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling, Assistant Director of the Center for Biblical Counseling
Marshall Adkins serves as Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling and Assistant Director of the Center for...
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Dr. Nicholas Ellen
CBC Fellow
Dr. Stuart Scott
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Sam Stephens
Instructional Faculty
Dr. Rhenn Cherry
Adjunct Faculty
