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.
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.
Steve Cooper was the San Bernardino reporter who converted in 1974 and wrote Go Ye: The Arizona Story, The Fellowship’s earliest book-length history.
Of the 36 people named in Go Ye: The Arizona Story, The Fellowship’s own 1982 history, 23 left, five stayed, and eight are unconfirmed. The full roster.
A Go Ye: The Arizona Story review: the 1982 book names its own risk, one man’s experience, concedes the cultism charge, and proceeds anyway.
The Potter’s House Christmas parade where Santa whipped a bloodied Jesus is confirmed by the church’s own 1985 history. The record, and what’s unresolved.
The Potter’s House Prescott is the mother church of Christian Fellowship Ministries: its founding, Wayman Mitchell, the money trail, and the local record.
The Potter’s House reviews by former members agree across four decades and three continents: total pastoral control, broken families, and a costly exit.
The Potter’s House Reddit community, r/PottersHouseCult, lets former members of CFM churches discuss their experiences without using their real names.
What does The Potter’s House believe? On paper, standard Pentecostal doctrine. In practice, unwritten rules its statement of faith never mentions.
There is no single agreed definition of a cult. This traces the word from worship to warning, sets out how experts and dictionaries define it, and offers a test whose one job is to separate an actual cult from a political base or a fandom.
Cult researchers are moving to high-control group and coercive control. The reasons are real. But for warning people before they walk in, the blunt word cult still does work the softer terms cannot.
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