video: Serial Abuser and IHOPKC Founder Mike Bickle Returns to Public Ministry
Why?
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. Proverbs 22:4 The result of humility is fear of the Lord, along with wealth, honor, and life. Understandably, church leaders like to make much of those they consider to have been "heroes of the faith", those who have suffered persecution and martyrdom because of what they believed. Also understandably, church leaders do not like to consider that the church itself has far too often been the persecutor, that the church has been the one who kill the martyrs or who committed other gross sins. Church leaders like to portray the church as the victim, but there is another and much more unpleasant truth; the church has often been the victimizer, the persecutor, the one with blood on its hand, the one wading deep into the vilest of sins. The Fault Many people have their own ideas about what is wrong with the church. I have been one of those people. No doubt, many of us have been...
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