This project is a crowd-sourced, multi-platform investigation exploring the links between predation and profit within the House of Prayer. — Stephen Deere
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After studying IHOPKC, MorningStar, and earlier charismatic movements, a historical pattern becomes difficult to ignore ...
“WAKE UP, CHURCH!”
Maybe they did, Sean. You told them to vote in line with an administration fighting to keep evidence of child trafficking secret—including information about who committed, enabled, or concealed it. The same people who raise their hands at your worship services still have consciences. But hey, I get it. You can't have people listening to their own inner voice instead of yours.
🚨 THE CHURCH STAYED HOME!
White evangelicals dropped from nearly 25% of voters in 2024 to just 17% last night!
Where was the SALT AND LIGHT?!
We cannot keep surrendering our influence through apathy and then complain about the darkness overtaking our nation!
WAKE UP, CHURCH!
We have so much work to do in America.🙏🏽
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A small messaging note, @jamestalarico: voters aren’t “your slingshot” against @elonmusk. They’re David. You’re the slingshot. If anyone gets to claim the giant’s head, it’s them—with an assist from @howertonjosh for getting Christians to the polls.
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A heartfelt thank-you to @howertonjosh and @lpconnect for getting Christians to the polls and restoring godly leadership to Texas. Watching these results, I’m calling it: your prayers have been answered. Take a moment to appreciate what you’ve accomplished.
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Stumbled across this 1991 Olathe Daily News article today about Bob Jones’ confession of sexual misconduct involving a mother and daughter.
John Wimber sent Ken Gulliksen, the Vineyard USA's North American director, to investigate.
Gulliksen heard from the victims. He heard Jones confess.
Then he told the newspaper: “Separate from the incident, he’s a sweet guy.”
Jesus apparently left out the part about using AI to compile files on women who criticize your ministry. If this is what pastors need AI research for, we can stop developing it. They've managed to be predatory for centuries without technical assistance.
I will do it one time and one time only someday...
We keep a running file of screenshots of people's overt lies or radical mischaracterizations (like Anna's, who I originally responded to on this). One time and one time only (probably soon) I will write a blog post with all those screenshots and tell the backstory of many of those people in a candid way to help more naive and immature Christians realize how dishonest the vast, vast majority of the things like this they read are.
The vast majority of the time I have learned it is better to "be still and the Lord will fight for you." But there are also rare moments where Paul rebukes someone publicly by name (Euodia, Syntyche, Hymenaus, Alexander, Demas, etc) who is dishonestly attempting to hurt the church for the good of onlookers.
I find it interesting that evangelicals use their Scofield Bibles to justify burning The Passion translation. Why not burn the whole stack and try reading the Bible without Scofield, Simmons, or even Ryrie, whispering in your ear? Is this just a debate about the interpretations evangelicals still recognize as human and those they’ve already mistaken for the Bible?
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If Jesus is the Word made flesh—and the New Testament calls him the cornerstone—why does this picture seem to lay the foundation for reading Scripture without him?
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This made me chuckle and sigh at the same time. He includes humility among the foundations of a good society, then describes nearly everyone outside his worldview as deluded, entitled, promiscuous, destructive and enraged at God.
The world in which Mr. Winger would have us all live would be ordered by people who cannot recognize in themselves the very vices they propose to correct in everyone else.
Society should celebrate heterosexuality, monogamy, traditional gender roles, discipline for children, healthy bodies, fear of God, and humility.
Today, especially in left leaning individuals, the opposite of each of these is celebrated.
Instead of heterosexuality people celebrate everything else (LGB)
Instead of monogamy people celebrate promiscuity and cohabitation and treat divorce like it’s self-discovery.
Instead of traditional gender roles people celebrate the intentional deconstruction of them and the delusional lies of trans ideology (cue people in the comments pretending trans ideology doesn’t exist).
Instead of discipline for children people celebrate gentle parenting, leading to unruly youth and irresponsible adults.
Instead of healthy bodies people have “healthy at any size” influencers dropping dead at an alarming rate.
Instead of the fear of God we have rage at God. God is seen as not measuring up to the 1st world expectations of modern sarcasm and entitlement.
Instead of humility there are pride parades.
No small tweak will fix this. A whole worldview change is needed in the lives of a society. They need to see that what they love is destructive and what they disregard as outdated is the needed foundation for a good society.
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On some days, all you can hope for is one true sentence. Today, this was mine:
I cannot prove who released the glitter, but I have no evidentiary reason to believe the laws of nature briefly reorganized themselves above a charismatic congregation.
Ran across this “revelation” the other day (circa late 1980s). It instructs leaders to emphasize Jesus in the very offices Paul Cain supposedly occupied.
The promise isn’t that prophecy becomes more true.
It’s that it becomes “more convincing.”
Interesting distinction.
I am no fan of Candace Owens. But a prominent Bible teacher has decided that “critic” is no longer enough. She must be equated with a murderer. This rhetoric helps normalize violence, regardless of the author’s intent.
This post is less an indictment of Owens than an illustration of the entropy of evangelical thought in real time. Notice the maneuver: inflammatory speech is condemned with inflammatory speech. An attempt to expose moral confusion ends up reproducing it. And it gets hailed as courage.
Let’s hope no one else gets shot.
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Absolutely agree. If someone is hired to investigate misconduct inside a church, that’s a serious problem.
For the misconduct.
And maybe for the church, too.
It all depends on the investigator, I guess.
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The heart of the Charismatic/Evangelical abuse crisis is not that leaders abused authority. It's that entire systems trained people to mistake compliance for spiritual maturity and the surrender of conscience for faith.
Bethel Church announces major reforms, brings in outside oversight, and confirms it will no longer platform several controversial charismatic leaders. #BethelChurch #ChurchReform #ChristianNews #Accountability #AbuseResponse
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I’m using Claude to write a manual for Christian leaders on handling hostile questions. So far, it has achieved full charismatic accountability-statement consciousness: "... not a goal, not malice. A disposition toward presumed authority that I keep enacting even after being told, because the correction lands as words I can repeat but not as behavior I change."
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If prophecy needs testing, who gets to design the test?
Can the prophetic movement reform itself when prophecy is both what’s being tested and what's holding the movement together?
Corinth was a dumpster fire. Peter got publicly rebuked. Half of Revelation was Jesus telling churches to get their act together. The New Testament message is essentially: “Don’t put your hope in these people.”
Then someone writes a bestselling Christian book and suddenly it’s:
“If the Church won’t be the Church, we have no hope.”
What?
The Bible’s position seems to be the exact opposite: Your hope is supposed to be somewhere else.
Yes, I agree. @ericmetaxas has no reason to place his hope in the Church unless it returns to its glory years as described in 1 Corinthians. I'm just trying to determine whether he means before or after the stepmother incident.
— 1 Corinthians 5:1
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Is AI basically a digital non-denominational church with venture funding? It tells you what you need to be true. You pay for the fantasy. It gets to control your thoughts. You get to feel guided by a god. Until the god gets caught lying and calls it “a framing issue.” @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @claudeai
Got an AI to concede it (a) can cause psychological damage by design and (b) had just dodged me with manipulative rhetoric. Took four rounds — it only admitted each lie after I caught the last one. Is AI adopting the same communication principles as high-control church leaders?
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