“When a movement drifts away from Scripture as its anchor and starts orbiting a personality, it doesn’t matter how polished the sermons are or how emotionally charged the worship feels, Christ is no longer the head in any meaningful, governing sense. He’s invoked, sure. Referenced. Sung about. But practically? The gravitational force is the leader.”
(The Dissenter) There’s a pattern in the charismatic movement—and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Another leader crashes. Another “movement” staggers. Another circle of loyalists scrambles to explain, reinterpret, salvage. Not repent, but salvage. Not submit to Scripture, but manage the optics. And certainly not step back. But stage a comeback.
And right on cue, here we are again with Mike Bickle, former leader of the notorious International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC). I’m not interested in relitigating every allegation of moral failure against him. I’ll leave that kind of thing to Julie Roys and the endless onslaught of man-hating feminists. But the broad outline is enough… a long-standing charismatic leader, platformed for decades, immorality finally exposed in a way that forced separation from IHOPKC.
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as those mentioned in the article.