Membership Covenant

1/1/2009-12/31/2009 

I am in agreement with the Constitution, By-laws, Standards of Conduct, Code of Ethics and Policies and Procedures of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (which can be obtained on our website at www.NANC.org) and hereby affirm my commitment to the sufficiency of the Scriptures in counseling as follows:

Biblical counselors affirm the value and usefulness of God’s revelation in toto, including both Special and General Revelation. God has chosen to reveal those truths that must be believed and practiced in order to please Him only through Special Revelation, now recorded exclusively and completely in the Scriptures.

God reveals Himself and man’s moral accountability to Him through His acts of creation and works of providence. These acts and works (sometimes called General Revelation and Common Grace, respectively) do not and were not extended to provide data necessary for life and godliness.

Neither creation nor providence is or ever was self-interpreting. Man’s fall into sin only increases his need for Special Revelation. He now actively misinterprets God’s world, exchanging the truth for a lie and suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.

The counselor must build his counseling system, including its presuppositions, principles and methodologies solely from Scripture. His counseling must demonstrate that Scriptural truth, ministered in the power of the Holy Spirit, is sufficient to enable counselees to love God and their neighbors.

We deny that secular theories and practices are manifestations of General Revelation or Common Grace. We affirm that they are, in fact, attempts to substitute the “discoveries” of rebellious human thought for the truths revealed in Scripture, and are, therefore, in competition with a proper interpretation of General Revelation and with biblical counseling. They cannot be integrated with the Faith once for all delivered to the saints.

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