PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries

For a number of years we have recommended the Biblical Counseling Foundation’s manual currently titled Self-Confrontation: a manual for in-depth discipleship. However, with our growing concern about the biblical counseling movement, we have taken another look at the manual as an integral part of the counseling training program offered by the Biblical Counseling Foundation (BCF). We express many of our concerns about the growing biblical counseling movement in our book Against Biblical Counseling: For the Bible, which could have been titled FOR THE BIBLE, but Against Biblical Counseling, since FOR THE BIBLE is truly the thrust of our book. Yet, our rising concern about the biblical counseling movement influenced the order of the title. Yes, we are FOR THE BIBLE. But we have serious problems with much of what is now called “biblical counseling.” One of the big problems with the biblical counseling movement is the erroneous impression, encouraged by many organizations, that one needs to take a biblical counseling course or complete a biblical counseling program before one can counsel from Scripture and certainly before one can excel in ministering godly counsel. Therefore, many Christians enroll in thes