
Should Potter’s House Pastors Admit Their Own Faults?
Potter’s House pastors who left often recount the abuse they suffered but not the harm they caused. Scripture asks the powerful to account for both.

Potter’s House pastors who left often recount the abuse they suffered but not the harm they caused. Scripture asks the powerful to account for both.

The dismissal that my case against The Fellowship is only interpretation is itself a theological claim. 2 Peter 1:20-21 tests it, grounds meaning in God, and binds the pastor as much as the reader.

Paul named Hymenaeus, Alexander, and Philetus for teaching specific false doctrine. He also named Demas, Phygellus, and Euodias for entirely different reasons. A careful look at what the New Testament’s naming actually does, and does not, accuse people of.

The fellowship’s own history celebrates pastors installed within a year of conversion. Paul’s word for a recent convert, neophytos, and his warning against laying on hands suddenly, say why that fails a biblical test.

The Potter’s House has never had a female pastor, and its own books state the reason. Held against the letters of Paul it cites, the doctrine does not survive its own proof-texts.

Acts 24 calls the early church a sect. Here is why that first-century word means something completely different from what we now call a cult.

The Placement Doctrine reads 1 Corinthians 12:18 to say God fixed you in one Potter’s House church, so leaving is rebellion. Then how can a pastor expel you?
Does “do not even eat with such people” (1 Corinthians 5:11) apply to a fallen pastor? Scripture draws the line at the table, and a title exempts no one.

Many Christians treat silence as the godly response to abuse in the church. The New Testament, read in context, asks for the opposite: to expose, rebuke, and act.

Members of The Potter’s House often do not want to hear criticism from anyone, unless it

In many churches, pastors are merely preachers—nothing more, nothing less. But what happens when their role

The term “Jezebel Spirit” is a loaded one, often used in certain Christian circles to describe
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