Wherever and on whatever subject Scripture speaks, it must be regarded as inerrant, authoritative, sufficient, and superior to
There is no authority that is higher than the one found in Scripture. Matters of faith and practice (Isaiah 8:19-20 2 Peter 1:3). The Holy Scripture, being God’s law and testimony, is true and should therefore serve as the Christian’s standard for all We also recognize that God has blessed us as we have trusted Him and are committed to the fact that His Word is sufficient in the biblical care of souls. We recognize that God has been faithful to us as we have attempted to be faithful to His Word. Street’s leadership, TMU now offers residential, online, summer intensive, synchronous, and correspondence type courses in biblical counseling at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. Robert Somerville to Master’s in 2005 to teach in our graduate program in which capacity he served for 10years until he retired in 2016. Ernie Baker in the Summer of 2005 to teach the undergraduate, graduate, seminary, and online programs here. Street established the program further and oversaw significant growth and momentum built in the biblical counseling movement. Mack transitioned to serve on the mission field in South Africa. Street became the Department Chairman when Dr. Mack in the Summer of 1999 to direct and develop our graduate programs. Scott returned in 2015 and served here full-time until 2022.ĭr. Stuart Scott in 1997 who taught here until 2005. Mack led the effort to teach our graduate level biblical counseling programs and assisted The Master’s Seminary (TMS) with their Master of Divinity program in which he taught pastoral counseling. Wayne Mack to lead the graduate program in biblical counseling here. Bob Smith from Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana to establish the undergraduate program in Biblical Counseling at TMC. TMU now offers both a graduate and post-graduate degree in biblical counseling: a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling (MABC) degree and a Doctor of Ministry in Biblical Counseling degree (DMin BC).
In 2016, TMC was renamed The Master’s University (TMU). When John MacArthur became President in 1985, he changed the name of the school to The Master’s College (TMC) and replaced the faculty in the Bible and Counseling departments with men who were doctrinally sound and committed to the sufficiency of Scripture. Like many other schools that succumbed to liberalism during the 1960’s and 70’s, LABC had been integrationist in its approach to counseling, as it attempted to combine the Bible and psychology. It was unclear if biblical counseling would even exist moving forward in the face of the liberal church and culture. Initially, biblical counseling wasn’t very popular in the church, and people wondered what the future of the movement would look like. When formal biblical counseling began to be taught at TMU, no other institution of higher education in the world was offering fully accredited training in biblical counseling. On July 1st, 2021, Master’s celebrated teaching biblical counseling for 30 years.
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