"I want to lay out my heart. When I write a book on hyper-grace, I see a need in the body and everywhere I go I see the abuse of this and then leaders are coming in crisis saying what do we do and then I feel the Lord assigning me to do it. I don't just search every day, let's find the latest error, let's correct it. Who am I, who appointed me or you or anyone to do this. Yes, we are watchmen on the wall but we have our assignments and the first thing we do is search our own lives." - Dr. Michael Brown
As Paul Hewson once sang, how and you stand next to the truth and not see it? So, we are watchmen on the wall, but we do not actually watch anything? Notice the hypocrisy. Dr. Brown has a calling to minister to Israel and I would not dream of questioning that if he has been given that burden. The problem is he thinks he gets to decide what burdens are legitimate and which are not. When the Apostle Paul saw error, he corrected it and named names. Dr. Brown is no watchman as he allows every single false theology to just walk on by. Joseph Prince? Come on in. Saxophone guy? You are welcome. Sneaky squid spirit Jennifer the Grifter LeClaire? Just a sister in the Lord, right? Wrong!
In the video, Dr. Brown starts to review his part in the IHOP debacle. He recalls how he was called in by IHOP leadership and how he was led to believe there was an investigation starting so he felt this was not the time for us to be airing opinions on social media because there was this investigation and everyone who felt they had a grievance had a place to go to let it all get sorted out now in a "righteous way." He then says something else that was quite telling. He says that he never dreamed for a split second that we would now be in March, and this still would not have happened. Yes! That is the problem Dr. Brown! When you spend your days mocking discernment, is it any wonder that you have none? I knew early on that there was too much smoke for IHOP not to be on fire. You listened to the IHOP leaders, who you should have known were totally compromised, and just blindly accepted whatever garbage they were feeding you. Now, it was at this point that Brown stepped back in part because he had personal commitments and in part because IHOP leadership had not done what they said they were going to do. When those commitments were over in January, he returned to the scene of the crime and started speaking about putting together another Charismatic clown car like he did during the last Todd Bentley fiasco. This panel he was putting together Brown says was made up of leaders as well as people known for their involvement in the prayer movement. That is all you need to know beloved for how rigged this process was going to be. It was why others and I spoke against such an idea. By bringing in people involved in the prayer movement, Brown is trying to game the resolution to include saving the prayer movement. He actually closes this radio show affirming the prayer movement as well as the false prophetic history of IHOP. These false prophecies all came from Bickle, Bob Jones, and Paul Cain - three sexual abusers and false prophets. The 24-7 prayer movement was never of God or from God, no matter how hard Brown tries to get in God's way right now as He is laying waste to IHOPKC and the shattered lives it was built upon. In the video, Brown now plays a snippet from the November 5th sermon at IHOPKC, followed by commentary from the radio show:
"You may have an opinion. Keep it to yourself. It does no good. You may want to show how prophetic you are and you are figuring it out - grow up! This is not the time to be doing that. There is a process in place and leaders have said that if it is insufficient they will go another step." - Dr. Michael Brown (November 5, 2023)
"I was not trying to silence the voice of victims or suppress people's hurt and pain. My understanding is a process had already been set in place that was now being announced. When I saw that this process was not working, one week later, I was on the phone saying, you got to make a change. The whole goal was let's not litigate this online. What's the use of me sharing my opinion and you sharing your opinion. Let's use social media constructively. It's devastating the damage we do with our tongue. We bear false witness against each other. We slander each other. We tear each other down. Spread rumors and innuendo." - Dr. Michael Brown (March 12, 2024)
What the use is Dr. Brown, is to get to the truth. The hypocrisy is that Dr. Brown has no problem with other people discussing and airing their opinions. IHOPKC leadership was certainly allowed to as they spread disinformation about the advocate group and the victims. Heck, they were allowed to bring in a professional PR Flack to deflect criticism. During these early stages Dr. Brown certainly did not have a problem with Misty Edwards and April Rose using social media to defend Mike Bickle. It's just that you were not allowed to have an opinion about that, right. Except Edwards and Rose were falsely leaked as being named victims when they never were. Back then, I called this for what it was - poisoning the well. To float a negative story to be able to use it to dismiss the legitimate stories. This is exactly what Brown's publisher, Steven Strang did when he actually called Bickle exonerated because of the Misty and April Rose's faux posts. How much damage has Steven Strang, your publisher, done with his tongue Dr. Brown? How much false witness did he bring against the advocate leaders, who used to work at IHOP! When he irresponsibly calls what is happening a "church fight" while you nod your head in the podcast, exactly how much slander are you engaging in? Strang and Larry Tomczak from Charisma have called this a coup of Mike Bickle. That the former leaders were jealous and wanted the IHOP empire for themselves. Isn't that spreading rumors and innuendo? Oh, I guess that was ok as long as your camp was spreading the innuendo? You see Dr. Brown, THAT was what was wrong with your early calls to "grow up." The only people who apparently did not know what IHOP leadership was doing was your camp, perhaps because you were so busy telling everyone else, they needed to shut up.
"I truly regret not understanding the full scope of what was happening." - Dr. Michael Brown
