01/03/2026
Some Public Reflections on Sean Perron’s Public Accusations Against the Biblical Counseling Coalition
In response to a thread started by Jason Kovacs, Sean Perron wrote: https://x.com/seanperron/status/2007175574134116748
As one you mentioned, I went to the BCC and it was one sided. Actively suffocated the conservative voices. The project failed. (Which is why so many resigned). I also think the Lord did not bless it because of the shameless self-promotion and pride involved. I'm hopeful for the future with Kevin but will believe it when there is fruit of repentance.
Here are my reflections for Sean:
1. That's an amazing, quite sad, and quite untrue public accusation you've just made, Sean. However, it is actually helpful that you've said it out loud.
2. According to you, the BCC “actively suffocated the conservative voices.”
Let’s publicly present facts about just a few of the conservative voices who presented and/or have had active roles/voices at the BCC year after year:
Stuart Scott. Heath Lambert. Julie Ganschow. David Powlison. Randy Patten. Kevin Carson. Jeremy Pierre. Amy Baker. Charles Hodges. Jim Berg. Mark Shaw. Ed Welch. Mike Emlet. Michael Leister, Lucas Sabatier, Luis Mendez, K**e Torres, Sascha Mendes, Jim Newheiser. Kevin Hurt. Joe Keller, Kyle Johnston. Lilly Park. Pat Quinn. Paul Tautges. Rob Green. Robert Jones. Howard Eyrich. Just to name a few.
Are they not conservative enough for you? Are they not strong enough voices?
3. You write that “so many resigned.”
According to the ACBC Executive Director, to this day, 40% of the BCC Council Board members are ACBC Certified Counselors/Fellows. Are they not conservative enough for you? Not strong enough voices for you? If so many resigned, it sure seems like so many conservative ACBC leaders are still active participants in the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Do you view these ACBC leaders as unwise? As compromisers?
4. You just publicly accused the Biblical Counseling Coalition of “shameless self-promotion and pride.”
Not a speck of evidence. Not an ounce of foundation. Just a vomiting out of false accusations. It’s that judgmental, arrogant attitude, Sean, which is leading many people to express concern about the ACBC. See the five links below for primary source quotes/documentation that the ACBC consistently expresses the attitude that they are the only good and godly people in the biblical counseling world—even calling into question the Christian faith of those who fail to align with ACBC!
5. For examples of ACBC’s attitude of superiority, and their public mischaracterizations of fellow biblical counselors, see:
Jason Kovacs Responds to Greg Gifford and ACBC
https://rpmministries.org/2026/01/kovacs-responds-gifford/
Are Greg Gifford and ACBC Really the Sufficient Standard for Who Is a Biblical Counselor?
https://rpmministries.org/2025/12/gifford-and-acbc/
Can You Be a Christian If You Are Not an ACBC-Approved Biblical Counselor?
https://rpmministries.org/2025/12/christian-bc/
A Crisis in the Biblical Counseling World?
https://rpmministries.org/2025/12/crisis-bc/
A Biblical Counseling Evaluation of ACBC’s “A Biblical View of Trauma, Part 2”
https://rpmministries.org/2025/08/trauma-part-2/
6. You write of “shameless self-promotion and pride.”
The five posts/links above document ACBC leaders (you, Dale, Omri, Greg, Francine) bluntly proclaiming that, people who are not ACBC certified are outsiders to biblical counseling.
Gifford said it with crystal clarity in his conclusion: “Thus, to clarify the movement going forward, true biblical counselors who want to communicate clearly their position should focus on their certification and their organization’s certification with ACBC” (42). “If one becomes a member of the ACBC organization, it thus prohibits them from being a CIBCer” (42).
ACBC has drawn the line. Dale Johnson, Heath Lambert, Sean Perron, Omri Miles, Greg Gifford, and others, could not be more clear. In their minds: If you are not aligned with ACBC, if you are not certified by ACBC, then you are an outsider to true biblical counseling.
So here’s my question, Sean: Is promoting ACBC as THE only faithful biblical counseling organization evidence at all of any “shameless self-promotion and pride”?
7. You spoke of the need for “fruit of repentance” for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Wow. You definitely have said the quiet part out loud.
Fruit of repentance is something that Christ calls forth from all of us, Sean.
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