Biblical Counseling
Biblical Counseling and Discipleship Major
This major trains men and women to serve as biblical counslors for urban local churches and related parachurch ministries. Biblical counseling, as distinct from psychological or psychiatric therapy, is a form of discipleship which leads hurting people to grow in their relationship to Jesus Christ. Based upon biblical principles, this form of discipleship is a process focusing on those problems obstructing progress in Christian maturity. Upon completion of this major students will be able to:
- Discern if the counselee has a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. If not, lead them to faith in Christ.
- Effectively gather data through using forms, extensive, and intensive questioning.
- Identify the common impediments to Christian growth, biblical thinking and a holy lifestyle.
- Establish rapport and give hope to hurting people.
- Effectively minister the Word to instruct, reprove, correct , and train in righteous living.
- Effectively use homework to purify heart desires, renew the mind, and develop biblical habits.
- Researach and counsel problems from the Bible.
- Know how to solve problems biblically. (i.e. personal, marital, family and destructive personal behaviors, etc).
- Train the laity in biblical counseling.
- Administer a local church counseling ministry.
- Interface with the agencies in caring for the needs of the whole person.
As each student progresses through the major, he or she will complete several requirements specific to the Biblical Counseling major.
- Each student must participate in the counseling/discipleship process as a counselee for at least twenty hours.
- Each student will observe another person counsel at least thirty hours.
- Each student will perform 30 hours of co-counseling.
- Each student will be exposed to a counseling case load diverse with respect to ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
- Each student will be provided the opportunity to counsel under supervision fifty hours as required for certificqation with the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors
- Each student will be required to memorize at least 60 passages of Scripture pertinent to the counseling process.
- As part of the internship, each student will participate in the following activities (1) reseaching biblical solutions to counseling problems, (2) train new biblical counselors, (3) administrating a counseling ministry, (4) networking with community agencies, (5) providing consulatiation for other counselors.
B.S. and B.Min. students majoring in Biblical Counseling must complete the following courses:
| GS 205 | Marriage and Family Living* | 3 credits |
| CC 315 | Dynamics of Change** | 3 credits |
| CC 317 | Biblical Counseling Practicum 1 | 3 credits |
| CC 406 | Biblical Counseling Practicum 2 | 3 credits |
| CC 499 | Biblical Counseling Internship | 3 credits |
*GS 205 Marriage and Family Living will count toward the B.S. student's Social Science elective in the General Education requirements. In addition to the above courses, B.S. students majoring in Biblical Counseling must complete four additional electives. These electives should be from the following list or any other 300-400 level course from the Pastoral Ministry, Urban/Ethnic Ministry, International Missions, Church Education, Biblical Counseling, Youth Ministry or Elementary Education departments, with the approval of his or her academic advisor. | ||
| CE 212 | Principles and Methods of Teaching | 3 credits |
| CP 303 | Dynamics of Discipleship | 3 credits |
| CP 308 | Biblical Leadership | 3 credits |
| CM 306 | Cross-Cultural Communications | 3 credits |
| CU 312 | Urban Ministry Strategies | 3 credits |
| CC 316 | Forming and Leading Small Groups | 3 credits |
| CU 403 | Dynamics of Change | 3 credits |
| CC 407 | Counseling Youth Problems | 3 credits |
| CC 490 | Specialized Topics in Biblical Counseling | 3 credits |
| Note: Students who desire certification with NANC must take at least one unit of "Biblical Counseling Training" from the NANC training center in Lafayette, Indiana, or one of the other NANC training centers across the country. See the website at www.NANC.org for a list of approved training centers. Additional Note: Crossroads students not pursuing the B.S. or B.Min. degree with a mojor in Biblical Counseling may take the following four courses with permission of the Biblical Counseling faculty in anticipation of applying for certification with NANC. | ||
| CC 315 | Dynamics of Change | 3 credits |
| CC 317 | Biblical Counseling Practicum 1 | 3 credits |
| CC 406 | Biblical Counseling Practicum 2 | 3 credits |
| CC 499 | Biblical Counseling Internship | 3 credits |
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First Year | ||||
 | Fall Semester | | Spring Semester | |
| GL 100 Crossroads Experience | 1 | CP 101 Personal Evangelism | 3 | |
| BI 101 Old Testament Survey 1 | 3 | BI 102 Old Testament Survey 2 | 3 | |
| GL 101 College Study and Life | 3 | BI 103 Bible Study Methods | 3 | |
| BT 102 Building a Biblical Life | 3 | GL 111 English Composition 2 | 3 | |
| GL 103 English Composition 1* | 3 | GL 112 Public Speaking | 3 | |
| GS 103 Introduction to Computers | 3 | |||
Total Credits: | 16 | Total Credits: | 15 | |
*Students not scoring above a specified level on the ACT or SAT test must take GL 102 English Grammar before registering for GL 103 English Composition 1. | ||||
Second Year | ||||
| Fall Semester | | Spring Semester | |
| CE 201 Intro to Christian Ed | 3 | CU 203 Culture, Race & Church | 3 | |
| CM 201 Introduction to Missions | 3 | BT 204 Systematic Theology 2 | 3 | |
| BT 203 Systematic Theology 1 | 3 | BI 205 New Testament Survey 2 | 3 | |
| BI 204 New Testament Survey 1 | 3 | CC 315 Dynamics of Change | 3 | |
| GS 206 Geo & Culture of the Ancient Near East | 3 | GS --- Hist/Soc Science elect** | 3 | |
| CC 314 Biblical Counseling | 3 | |||
Total Credits: | 18 | Total Credits: | 15 | |
**B.S. electives are listed by division on page ??. | ||||
Third Year | ||||
| Fall Semester | | Spring Semester | |
| BT 305 Systematic Theology 3 | 3 | BT 306 Dev of Comp American Evangelicalism | 3 | |
| GS 205 Marriage & Family*** | 3 | CC 406 Bib Counseling Pract 2 | 3 | |
| BI 307 Hermeneutics | 3 | BI --- Bible Elective** | 3 | |
| CC 317 Bib Counsel Practicum 1 | 3 | CC --- Bib Counseling elect**** | 3 | |
| BI --- Bible elective** | 3 | CC --- Bib Counseling elect**** | 3 | |
| GS History elective** | 3 | |||
Total Credits: | 15 | Total Credits: | 18 | |
| **B.S. electives are listed by division on page ??. ***GS 205 Marriage and Family Living is required for the Biblical Counseling major but also counts as the student’s Social science elective. ****Biblical counseling electives are listed on page ??. | ||||
Fourth Year | ||||
| Fall Semester | | Spring Semester | |
| CC 406 Bible elective** | 3 | GL 401 Senior Seminar | 2 | |
| BT --- Theology elective** | 3 | CC 499 Bib Counsel Internship | 3 | |
| CC --- Bib Counsel elective**** | 3 | BI --- Bible elective** | 3 | |
| GS --- Science elective** | 3 | CC --- Bib Counsel elective**** | 3 | |
| ----- General elective | 3 | GL --- Literature elective** | 3 | |
| ------ Worldview elective** | 3 | |||
Total Credits: | 15 | Total Credits: | 17 | |
| **B.S. electives are listed by division on page ??. ****Biblical counseling electives are listed on page ??. | ||||
