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The Potter’s House: Reviews by Former Members
The Potter’s House reviews by former members agree across four decades and three continents: total pastoral control, broken families, and a costly exit.
July 15, 2026
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The Potter’s House, the FBI, and a Security Clearance
In his chapter of Escaping the Potter’s House, Dennis Crosby recounts a friend who was told to leave the El Paso Potter’s House or lose his security clearance.
June 30, 2026
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First Love Broken By The Potter’s House
Amy Fernandez’s own account, reproduced here in full and unedited, of her first love inside The Potter’s House, and the nineteen years of institutional interference that kept two people apart until a reunion decades later.
October 24, 2025
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Why I Left The Potter’s House: A Former Member’s Eleven Reasons
My late brother-in-law Gert Jonker’s own account of why he left The Potter’s House, the Christian Fellowship Ministries church known as The Door, published here in full with his family’s permission.
October 29, 2020
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Life in The Door as a Young Adult
I remember looking up to my pastors so much, and having such respect and admiration for
October 10, 2020
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Poetry: life in the Potter’s House
When you do what I tell you toand you don’t ask me why,I’ll ask you to
October 9, 2020
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“What’s It Like Being in a Cult?” A YouTuber’s Two-Part Answer
YouTuber Jearrod Fountain (98K subscribers) made two videos about his years inside a Potter’s House affiliate. The second names the network directly after backlash to the first. What holds up, corroborated by outside reporting, and what’s testimony alone.
April 9, 2019
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Suicides in the Fellowship
Here are extracts from various posts, by various people, regarding suicides in the Potter’s House &
May 21, 2006
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“No Longer a Redneck”: An Australian Pastor’s Twelve Years Inside Potter’s House Church Australia
A twelve-year Australian pastor describes Potter’s House church Australia’s marriage decrees, television bans, and a culture that praised America over his own country, ending in a resignation letter that never received a reply.
November 3, 2002
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“I Prefer to Serve God”: Twenty-Seven Years Inside Christian Fellowship Churches
A 27-year member of Christian Fellowship Churches describes a pastor cut from Wayman Mitchell’s own mold, public humiliation staged as discipline, a suspected slush fund, and the 2000 exodus that finally broke the silence.
September 7, 2002
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“A Painted Door on the Wall”: Trapped by Marriage at Victory Chapel in Guam
A former Victory Chapel church member in Guam describes a marriage used to trap him for four years, public shaming over a college degree, and his own theory for why some CFC churches call themselves The Door: a painted door on the wall.
May 12, 2002
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A Marriage Undone Twice: One Man’s Road Through The Door Church and Praise Chapel
A former Door church member describes burnout, a marriage used as leverage to keep him in line, and a second fellowship, Praise Chapel, that could not fully protect the same marriage from the patterns it had inherited.
February 12, 2002