- God is at the center of counseling
- Commitment to God has epistemological consequences
- Sin, in all its dimensions is the primary problem counselors must deal with
- The gospel of Jesus Christ is the answer
- The biblical change process which counseling must aim at is progressive sanctification
- The situational difficulties people face are not the random cause of problems in living
- Counseling is fudamentally a pastoral activity and must be church-based