How The Potter's House Operates
Did The Potter’s House Teach Parents to Beat Their Children?
The Potter’s House taught parents to whoop their children as an act of obedience to God,
July 18, 2026
How The Potter’s House Operates
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How The Potter's House Operates
What Is It Like to Grow Up a Pastor’s Kid in The Potter’s House?
Growing up a pastor’s kid in The Potter’s House meant being raised inside a high-control church
July 18, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
Does The Potter’s House Breed a Culture of Ministry Ambition?
The Potter’s House ministry model rewards men for the size of what they gather, breeding an ambition to climb that Scripture and its own history condemn.
July 17, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
What Does The Potter’s House Believe?
What does The Potter’s House believe? On paper, standard Pentecostal doctrine. In practice, unwritten rules its statement of faith never mentions.
July 15, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
The Potter’s House Contracts: Control on Paper
The Potter’s House contracts, from Arizona to Australia to Zwolle, show central control behind a public claim of loose, autonomous, unaffiliated churches.
July 4, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
Wayman Mitchell Did Not Attend His Daughter’s Funeral
Former pastor Clement Okusi states that Wayman Mitchell stayed away from his daughter Sharon Mastin’s funeral. Inside The Fellowship, the absence was the rule.
June 30, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
The Potter’s House Cult Comparison, in Their Own Words
Long before critics did, the Potter’s House cult comparison appeared in the movement’s own books. Wayman Mitchell cited Jim Jones to explain how people follow a pastor, pointed to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons, and an insider book named the cult reputation directly.
June 25, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
How High-Control Churches Answer Criticism
When a former member says in public that the church they were raised in did harm,
June 23, 2026
How The Potter's House Operates
From Pastor to Idol: The Veneration of Leaders in The Door
Honor for a leader is normal. The Door has carried it past honor into veneration, assigning to one man a place the New Testament reserves for Christ alone.
December 23, 2025
How The Potter's House Operates
How The Door Militarizes Christianity
Battle, victory, discipline, the front line: the words sound biblical. Set against The Door’s own books, they describe a command structure, not a metaphor.
December 22, 2025
How The Potter's House Operates
Why The Door Attacks the Critic Instead of the Criticism
Raise a question about The Door and the subject changes from the question to you. That substitution is not an accident; it is how the system defends itself.
December 18, 2025
How The Potter's House Operates
Who Joins The Door, and Why Them
There is no single type of person who stays in The Door, but there are repeating risk factors. Here is who tends to bind for the long term, and why.
December 17, 2025