"Strang - you have to ask why is it coming out now if happened so many years ago. I believe there is a spiritual aspect to this. Just like every time there is a church fight, division in the body of Christ. When there's animosity and hurt and hate - the enemy of our souls stirs up things. We have to recognize that this is blown out of control. You know, Mike is not the first Christian leader to fall and won't be the last. If we look at the bible, nearly all of the great people had some nasty things about them. Moses murdered a man. David with Bathsheba. Yet God still somehow used them. It's not our place to understand exactly what God is doing. But obviously God is trying to do something in the life of Mike Bickle and in that ministry."
This is just one of the things that make Steven Strang so disgusting through all of this. He starts by saying he has to apologize and then regurgitates his greatest lies. He alludes to this being a spiritual attack, one of his distortions from December. Realize that by insinuating this is all just a spiritual attack is to dismiss the credibility of the victims out of hand. To claim this as a spiritual attack is to claim the former IHOP leaders are now being used by Satan. This is also not a church fight. To hint as such is to completely mock the victims. This is not about division in the body of Christ, unless you are referring to how Mike Bickle has ruined the faith of many. That is not what Strang is referring to however. This is not about animosity, the inference of which is directed at Bickle, which is absurd. Likewise, it is not about hate. It is about a lying man, abusing women, for decades. The only person being stirred up here by the enemy is Steven Strang. Mike is not the first leader to fall? Who cares? What is your point? Mike Bickle is not Moses. Dear Lord, he is not King David. What is staggering here is that Steven Strang looks at the scope of this problem and the only conclusion he can reach is that God must be trying to do something in Mike Bickle's life and ministry? How utterly disgusting. Perhaps God does not like being mocked. Perhaps He is bringing vindication and justice to the many women Bickle has ruined. Perhaps also, God is exposing the corrupt heart of Steven Strang. Those are much more realistic conclusions than what Strang has arrived at.
"Strang - one of the things I wanted to talk to you about is one of the accusations is that Mike did something when he was in his 20s with an underage girl and that's a serious charge. So here this happened before he even moved to Kansas City. The question I have is, especially in the society we live in, most Christian leaders would have done something that would be very embarrassing if it came out. So, what about other leaders that might have something in their past, that's been repented of, can it be held over their head and is it worth their ministry being scrubbed. I want to be quick to give a disclaimer. I don't have this kind of secret, thank God. But it's only by God's grace but I have done things that wouldn't want on the front page because it would be embarrassing. So where is repentance, where is restoration and how long can these sins" I am saying what about other Christian leaders, what are they to do?"
The depths of depravity that Strang is willing to stoop to is repulsive. Sexually abusing two girls at 15 and younger and another when she was 19 for four years is not merely "embarrassing." This minimization is what Strang has consistently tried to do to protect his buddy. He also intimates here that Bickle somehow repented? When? He seemed to have committed the abuse first with the 15-year-old for several years. Then he moved and started with the 14-year-old and followed her through high school. Then he moved again and moved on to the 19-year-old Jane Doe and abused her for another four years. Strang also conveniently forgets there are probably another 8-9 victims whose stories we have not heard yet. So, when exactly did Mike Bickle repent? More recently when he covered up his son having an affair with the wife of an IHOP administrator, who he himself was inappropriate with? As for other Christian leaders, let me be clear. If you have built your ministry on victimizing anyone, let alone underage girls, there is no restoration to ministry. Repentance is needed to avoid hell. Period. It is also pretty creepy that Strang felt compelled to assure us that he does not have anything like this in his past. Make a mental note.
"Strang - let's say someone did what the reports have said Mike did, does this mean he should have never gone into ministry in the first place? That the prayer movement should never have been launched? I mean, where does it stop and where does it end?"
It is ironic that Strang asked this question, with clear impure motives, but it is the right question. He asked it expecting Brown to side with him. Brown gave a kind of milquetoast answer about how if a pastor had sexually groomed and abused minors that he could not lead a ministry but amazingly enough Brown thought they could serve in ministry under authority with repentance. This answer is completely tone deaf because clearly, Mike Bickle never repented. They keep bantering about cases where someone might repent but it is not applicable to the case at hand. Should the questions we are asking at this point be about restoring Bickle or about discovering the truth and protecting the victims? Strang's exasperated plea of where does it end reveals he still thinks the injustice here has been served upon Bickle instead of being perpetrated by him. Where does it stop Steven? It stops where we have ministers who do not sexually abuse women and minors. Are you kidding me? That's where it "stops." The answer to the million-dollar question by the way is no. Mike Bickle CLEARLY should have never gone into ministry, start the fake 24-7 prayer debacle or have founded IHOPKC. Why? Because he was a serial liar, a false prophet, a perpetual adulterer and a groomer of teens and young girls. Not exactly a good starting point for a move of God. This scandal, despite the best efforts of Brown and Strang PROVES that IHOPKC has been Satanic the entire time. God had nothing to do with founding it. He had nothing to do with the carnal successes it enjoyed and now we must stand back in awe as God almighty tears it down, brick by lying brick.
"Brown - whatever good came out of Mikes ministry, and a lot of good came out of it, that was the gift of God. If God heals someone it's the Holy Spirit that did it. If He helped grow a prayer movement through and individual that's the Holy Spirit."
So, we see the delusion Dr. Brown still walks under. The majority of the kids that propped up this fake movement for the past three decades were forced to do so. It was part of their curricula at IHOP. They received credit for it. They were then forced to record journals to mystify the experience. There were eastern mysticism practices, Kundalini, and transcendental meditation. Listen to the people who escaped! They all testify to the same thing! Read the story about the murder of Bethany Deaton and what her and her group had to do for IHOP. In order for Dr. Brown's logic to be true, the Holy Spirit has blessed IHOPKC for 25 years even though it was founded on people lying about what God said, and by three sexual predators. The main one being Bickle, who abused at lest three women, ages 14, 15, and 19, not to mention all of the untold stories yet to come. In what world does Dr. Brown think that the Holy Spirit would be moving through this morass of sin and lying about God? Just because a lot of people bought the lies of Bickle and may have been sincere it does not make it a move of God. They are victims as well.
