Training & Certification

To become an FBC Certified Biblical Counselor, you’ll need to:

1. Become an FBC Member – Your first step toward certification
2. Connect with a Training Center – Find one near you or explore online options
3. Complete the FBC training curriculum – Fundamental biblical counseling skills and theology
4. Receive mentorship – Personal guidance from your Training Center Director
5. Get certified by your local church – Your pastor and elders certify you upon completion

Online training, classes, and special events.

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The M.I.T. training is available through both webinar and classroom formats. These options provide the fundamental biblical counseling training needed to establish a strong foundation in biblical soul-care and prepare you to continue developing your counseling skills through your local church and approved training center.

This training is designed to help assist you in understanding the importance of the sufficiency of scripture in practical theology for soul-care and redemptive purposes, within the oversight and ministry of the local church. The fundamentals training is NOT FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING use exclusively, outside of the purpose and authority of the local church.

The M.I.T. training provides you a very important starting place to learn the basic skills and biblical methodology of impacting change in the lives that God uses in the soul-care of those in need. This fundamentals training is NOT designed to be exhaustive in counseling content and methodology for discipling people in crisis. It does, however, provide a fundamental understanding of effectively ministering the timeless texts of Scripture to facilitate your own spiritual growth, as well as to increase your biblical skill level in the soul-care work of others. 

There is one more important piece of information needed in completing this online training for biblical counseling certification. You must be sponsored by an approved training center director who will mentor your progress, and you must have an approved application for membership with the organization that will certify you.