Whenever I’m tempted to think Christianity is a fraud because of fraudulent pastors, I’m reminded it was the religious establishment that had Jesus arrested and crucified. Wherever there is money & power gained through religious position, there will be self-interest & hypocrisy.
EXCLUSIVE: In wake of allegations of past sexual misconduct, @DrMichaelLBrown's ministry has hired law firm to investigate.
Woman told TRR Brown often kissed her, held hands & slapped her butt. Brown claims relationship lacked judgment but was "nonsexual"
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If I had to identify the most dangerous aspect of the cult I was raised in, I would, without a doubt, say it was the violent culture of misogyny that festered within the leadership.
I am writing a longer explanation of this, but I figured I would repost this in the meantime.
Gathering data for dad’s prophecies was my JOB. He required his kids work for his company and / or ministry since we were kids. My first job at 7 was calling people for donations. At 12 I would spend ten hours a week researching people and writing prophetic words for him.
1/🧵I have never known how to address this publicly, but it has become clear that is time for me to speak up
My dad, Bob Hartley, who has been an influential prophetic figure in both #IHOPKC and #Bethel church is a complete fraud. His prophetic ministry has always been a con.
Just hours before Tammy Woods’ interview with the KC Star, Mike Bickle sent her this “script” that he was preparing to use in a video to be made with his wife Diane on January 30th.
🚩 He refuses contact with outside leaders but has no problem running his ideas by one of his victims.
🚩 Notice how he uses terms like “our staff”, “our prophetic history”, “our story” and references his relationship to the leadership team. How could someone who is truly permanently separated from the ministry use that kind of language?
🚩 He makes it clear why he made this statement - “because of the pain and burden that MY family endures” - not to express any kind of sorrow for his actions or the pain he has directly caused to countless people. It’s a textbook DARVO example where he is now portrayed as the real victim here.
🚩 And where does this “pain” he and his family are enduring come from? The criticism of the prophetic history. It’s clear that there’s still nothing he’s more obsessed with than upholding the veracity of this “narrative”.
🚩 He continues to blame all this on “Satan’s agenda” to cause us to be “offended at God’s leadership.” This is not far off from a sentiment that is still held by some current leaders who are hanging onto the idea that this is the Black Horse and IHOP is under a demonic attack against the prayer movement.
A statement by TH, one of the Jane Does who first shared her testimony with the advocacy group regarding Mike Bickle’s predatory behaviors. TH restates the need for a 3rd party investigation as the recent #ihopkc investigation report was “insufficient and woefully misleading”: