Mission and Vision
The BCPPC is affiliated with the nearly 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors, and is open to all mental health professionals, pastors, chaplains, para-professionals, and lay counseling ministry leaders who identify themselves as Christian counselors.
Our mission is to serve Christian counselors throughout the world in taking positive and tangible steps to develop the emerging profession of Christian counseling. Our vision is to create and maintain a viable and comprehensive Christian Care Network as a resource for hurting people.
21st-CENTURY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: A BCPPC Perspective
As an organization of dedicated counseling professionals, the AACC believes:
Base Definition
Modern Christian counseling derives its basic orientation and authority first and foremost, from the Bible as the Word of God, which is the primary source of all wisdom and Christian spiritual formation; and secondly, from a balanced utilization of contemporary mental health therapies, the behavioral sciences, and sound clinical practice. Christian counseling, across the entire spectrum of care, is also intended to be holistic, purposefully taking into account the bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessment of individuals. Furthermore, the treatment and prevention of mental/emotional/character disorders is aligned with the goal of moving toward Christian maturity and wellness. At its best, professional and ministry-based Christian counseling builds upon biblical truth and spiritual practice along with the relevant theoretical and practical contributions of various mental health traditions to help produce Christ-like character, behavior, and contentment in the lives of the people and systems that are served.
The Board of Christian Professional & Pastoral Counselors is associated with the American Association of Christian Counselors and embraces the AACC/BCPPC Doctrinal Statement
As an organization of dedicated counseling professionals, the AACC believes:
- In one God, creator and sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally co-existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are the inspired and trustworthy Word of God, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of human beings, and the final authority for all matters about which it speaks.
- That human nature derives from two historical persons, male and female, created in God’s image. They were created perfect, but they sinned, plunging themselves and all human beings into sin, guilt, suffering, and death.
