The What & the Why

Our vision is to offer true and lasting hope by sharing the Gospel to all who come to MARKINC for help, hope, and healing. Our desire is to anchor people’s hope in Jesus so that their faith in Him will bring healing and restoration. We want to encourage and equip others about God’s trustworthiness and faithfulness, no matter how difficult the circumstances, through the variety of free resources we produce and distribute. Biblical counseling is an approach that uses the Bible to address the multifaceted issues in the lives of individuals, couples and families. The Bible teaches that destructive thoughts, motives, attitudes, words and actions flow from the sinful nature of man.

Biblical counseling addresses this soul-sickness as the source of these offensive human actions and reactions and offers the wisdom revealed in the Bible as the cure. Biblical counseling is practical and effective. It does not view people as simply spiritual beings with spiritual problems. Instead the Biblical counselor sees the individual as a physical, emotional, cognitive and relational being as well. One focus of Biblical counseling is to help others develop a worldview of life that is consistent with the sacred Word of God.

The goal of Biblical counseling is spiritual maturity and thus highly values the role of the local church in bringing about the heart change via authentic Christian community. True Biblical change is the result of the Holy Spirit working in one’s heart and often includes intervention by other people such as a pastor, a mentor or a counselor. The Biblical counselor helps people identify their problems in Biblical terms. As this is accomplished, the individual is challenged to seek the root issue and not merely apply band-aids to a spiritual cancer. This process is filled with grace and is ultimately redemption. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the foundation for the work of Biblical counseling.