Online Courses - Basics of Biblical Counseling

BCTI partners with the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF)* to provide biblical counseling courses in India at a discounted rate.

These online courses offer a biblical foundation for understanding God, understanding ourselves, and understanding others – a valuable tool for anyone involved in ministry or counseling.

Our Goal

Equipping the church to be a healing community

We want to see grace-filled local churches and ministries, being enabled to impact and serve broken communities, by intentionally sharing their lives and the blessings they have discovered in Christ and the Word of God.

FORMATION CERTIFICATE

The Formation Certificate is designed for every Christian who seeks to grow in Christ and help others do the same. This certificate, which consists of two courses, will give you a basic foundation for understanding how God transforms his people and a framework for Christlike ministry.

DYNAMICS OF BIBLICAL CHANGE

The way that you counsel other people is determined by how you understand God, yourself, other people, life’s pressures, and change. This course addresses the depth, breadth, and balance of your understanding. How does Christ’s past grace, present grace, and future grace speak to our hearts and change how we live our daily lives?

This course is about people. It is about how we face the troubles of life. It is about how we deal with our inner struggles. It is about how we change into Jesus’ image. Through case studies, class lectures, assigned readings, and Scripture, you’ll explore these practical questions. Self-counseling projects will help you to make first-hand, practical application of the concepts learned in class.

Dynamics of Biblical Change must be taken as a prerequisite to all other courses.

HELPING RELATIONSHIPS

Let’s say you have a basic and growing understanding of biblical counseling. You know the key ideas and have been able to apply them to yourself.

Now comes the hard part: How do you apply this understanding in your everyday relationships? This course will take the content you already know and get specific about how you can actually deliver the content. Case studies, lectures, and group discussions will help you grow in your ability to listen well, know people, interpret another person’s story from a biblical perspective, and offer biblically-based truth that will motivate others in their growth in Christ.

This course has two unique requirements. First, you will be grouped with 3-4 other students for a bi-weekly community group. This group will decide when they want to meet, and what format works best (Whatsapp, Phone Call, Zoom etc.)

You will also meet weekly for an hour with someone (a friend, fellow church member, neighbor, etc.) to put into practice what you are learning in this course. You will receive more information about these activities in your course syllabus and in the opening lecture.