Dr. Jared Poulton

Dr. Jared Poulton

Assistant Pastor

I have had the amazing privilege of serving among the saints of Cornerstone since October 2024. I currently serve as the Pastor of Counseling and Teaching at Cornerstone, having formally entered the ministry in 2018 and served in pastoral positions in Georgia as well as a parachurch biblical counselor. I also currently serve as the Executive Director of the Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling and the Shepherd’s Way Biblical Counseling Network.
I hold an MDiv and a PhD in biblical counseling from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The seeds of the Reformed faith were planted into my heart through the faithful ministry of Clemson Presbyterian Church in the early 2010s. I came to fully embrace Reformed convictions concerning the sacraments and ecclesiology through the study of Cornelius Van Til while writing my dissertation of Van Til and biblical counseling.
It is my desire to see Cornerstone continue to grow in their knowledge of the Word and their love for God and one another. I cherish the opportunities to devote myself to the expositional ministry of the Word and the interpersonal ministry of the Word through counseling in addition to my responsibilities at the IRBC and the Shepherd’s Way. My wife, Kerry, and I have been married since June 2012, and we are expecting the Lord to increase the number of our children to four in October.