Re: Is Mike Bickle cultic and controlling?
After having been through a cult experience myself for eighteen years, I wouldn't say I'm hyper sensitive at all, but just very much more likely to recognize another cult when I see one.
Also, having had a cult experience, I can also say that yes, it can be a wonderful experience in a lot of ways and it's hard to leave that experience, so many don't. In the cult I was in, everybody helped everybody out. It was like a huge extention of our blood family. And there was a closeness because we were separate and isolated from everyone else. It was hard for my family to break away from all that. I know friends of mine today that did break away but that very much mourn that closeness that we all had.
In the IHOP cult, they are being told they are powerful and part of this huge movement that's going to change the world. They are told they are on the cutting edge of all this, and I'm sure it's very exciting for many of them.
But it doesn't matter how good an experience feels, or how exciting it is, if it's not of God, then we need to run from it.
And yes, some of these people may leave IHOP and start their own cult, where they feel all these same good feelings, except they are the ones in power, which feels even better I'm sure.
And yes Mike Bickle will encourage the breaking away and starting of new groups because this is all part of the agenda to grow more and more groups just like his so they can take over the world! They must expand!