Using Ernie Baker’s 7 “S” Words to Assess Whether CIBC Is Truly BC

Our Focus Here’s our focus today:Using Ernie Baker’s 7-part assessment model, can Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors legitimately claim to be part of the modern biblical counseling family?Ernie and Dale In an April 6, 2026 ACBC Truth in Love podcast, Dale Johnson interviewed Ernie Baker about the question, Is Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling the Third Generation?In the podcast, Ernie and Dale concluded that:Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling (CIBC) is not the third generation of