'I consider Mike Bickle a very effective leader and he has raised up a lot of staff. But apparently some who have left have some kind of offense. I say this based on what they've done and what other people are saying about them. In fact, I have a friend who is kind of an IHOPKC insider and in fact he is the one who sent me the statement earlier today. Then he sent me what he posted in Twitter. "It's not just about being right that matters, it's how we are right that matters. To reflect the character of Christ in all matters, in our thoughts and actions." I thought that was well said but in a personal text to me he said, "there are weapons of mass emotion used to control a narrative and implant beliefs, whether true of false. Memories can be manipulated, woundedness not dealt with desires another person to feel pain."' - Steven Strang
Ok, what these three former leaders have done, is try and counsel and represent several women that have claimed very serious sexual and spiritual abuse suffered at the hands of Mike Bickle. They tried to bring these to Bickle, my misapplying Matthew, and were rebuffed. They have vetted these allegations so far and determined them to be credible. They also concluded that Bickle targeted the victims and engaged in spiritual manipulation. So, despite this, Strang views it all negatively, smears the three by claiming they are operating with ill will in the spirit of offense against Bickle, as well as because some other people say bad things about them. How "journalistic." How in the world does Steven Strang sleep at night let alone think he is reflecting the character of Christ by defaming three former church leaders and dismissing the victims of sexual abuse as liars? Ahh but this anonymous Twitter friend takes it further to insinuate that the very memories these victims have, must have been manipulated. How utterly evil and vile.
"I am just concerned that it appears that some wounded leaders apparently had it in for Mike for some reason and they came representing this group. The statement says that after three weeks of examination, IHOPKC has identified five of the eight alleged victims. Three of the five have publicly called the allegations a lie. A fourth has not wanted to communicate with IHOPKC's attorneys and a fifth allegations relate to incidents that preceded IHOPKC's founding. Then at the end it says that IHOPKC has heard the demands to bring a third party in to investigate the organization in general, but this step is premature until IHOPKC can establish the credibility of these allegations and genuine intent of the complaint group. IHOPKC remains open to inviting a third party or several third parties to examine these findings. It is our sincere desire that the anonymous Jane Does come forward as soon as possible either directly to IHOPKC attorneys or via the complaint group." - Steven Strang
Once again, the "wounded leaders" lie. This entire video is designed to offer people seeking confirmation bias about Bickle and the charges exactly the reasoning they need. Never mind Strang, or me, have no idea who these victims are. Let's play out this rationale. Let's say that it really wasn't eight. Perhaps some have recanted under pressure or perhaps they were never victims. Is three enough? Two? What about one? How many women is it ok, for Mike Bickle, teacher of holiness, to have once sexually abused, while married to someone else? The bible says one is too many, but Strang is offering up the possibility that the original number might be smaller, as "exoneration" for Bickle regardless of how many victims there might actually be. IHOPKC is not open to any outside investigation. If they were, they would have stuck to their original promise to hire one and stop making excuses.
"I have already commented on the fact that a couple of the victims have said no and the others there was not a shred of evidence, there were not text messages, there were not emails. Apparently in one case I read a statement by one of the leaders I do know personally who has apparently been counseling this victim and her husband but so far there has not been any evidence brought forward. So it's just kinda hearsay and its just interesting that there's nothing specific and the statement says the complaint group did bring a pre-prepared list of demands to prevent escalating levels of disclosure, I'm not sure what that means and the demands and threats that included dictating the use of IHOPKC's funds and it generated an atmosphere of concern regarding the true objectives of the complaint group. Now, IHOPKC has been given a lot of donations over the years, even though the staff raise their own support, people give to the ministry. Some very generous donors have given them some land. It's just very interesting when there's a lot of assets and then sometimes when you have leaders who think that maybe they would be the successors, you know there's just so many questions. The fact is I don't know what's going on. I'm just trying to connect the dots in order to understand and report and let you understand what's really going on." - Steven Strang
Strang needs to keep to his day job, fleecing the flock while performing as a shill for the Republican Party. Hearsay is a legal term whose core feature is the person being quoted is not present. So, if an alleged victim said her friend had also said Bickle assaulted her, but you could not locate the friend to corroborate, THAT would be hearsay. When the actual victim is stating what actually happened to them, that is call TESTIMONY, not hearsay. Realize Strang is again just trying to cheapen the victims in the eyes of his readers to protect his buddy. The other red herring offered here is this notion of evidence. Firsthand accounts of what happened? Yeah, that's what we call evidence Steve. As Strang has already pointed out some of the accusations, including the most damning, stem from actions in the 1990's, you know, before people were really using email and before texting was a thing. I might add here, most people do not text and email while having an affair or have been sexually abused. Most real people do not hold onto the blue dress.
What is absolutely disgusting here though, is Strang talking out of the corner of his mouth about the fact that he does not know a damn thing, while smearing the motives of the former leaders who are helping the victims. So, Steven Strang has now born false witness against these three former IHOP board members, one of which was a former IHOP pastor, by inferring they are doing this because they viewed themselves as successors to the vast IHOP empire. Sprawling land and property and donations, none of which would actually be theirs if they were to succeed Bickle anyway but why let the truth muck up a perfectly good smear job? In order for his friend to be innocent there must have been a grand conspiracy involving these three formerly respected leaders and women spanning four decades to take down the dove-like innocent Mike Bickle, right.
"So here we have this group of leaders and one of whom, and this is all hearsay, but I was told one of these people told someone at IHOPKC and this is absolute hearsay, that they wanted to see the ministry burned down. So you have to wonder about their motives. Now if there has been wrongdoing, if there has been manipulation, or inappropriate touching or whatever it is we want that dealt with but let's think about the "me too" movement. The me-too movement in secular culture, some of the men accused were absolutely guilty. They absolutely used their power to manipulate women sexually. Then there were a couple of times when somebody wanted to destroy a man that they brought these charges and two were very prominent because they were in the news. One was Brett Kavanaugh. There were people who wanted to keep him off the SC and they found a lady named Christine Blase' Ford who alleged that in college, at a party, he groped her and did some other things. It was presented in the Senate and there were people who were so concerned about her feelings and this happened years and years ago and isn't it interesting that this came just when he was coming before the Senate to be confirmed for the SC and would tip the court in favor of the conservatives. Now there was l this evidence and the Senate voted to confirm him. Christine went back to California. There is reason to believe she made it all up. In fact BK was a real journal keeper and if I remember correctly, he was able to present journals from that era which didn't even hint any of that kinda stuff was even going on. But regardless there were these allegations and there were people who were so concerned about Christine and here we have allegations and people are so concerned about these unnamed women and a powerful ministry, and this is more than just Mike Bickle but there are people who are apparently offended at him, trying to pull him down. Now I don't know this for sure but I've seen this happen. I've seen several mega churches come down because a younger generation of leaders almost did a palace coup against the senior pastor. Most of the time these aren't really in the news. The secular new media doesn't really consider it news other than the fact that its titillating." - Steven Strang
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