Some Said They Blundered

Breaking My Decades of Silence on Mike Bickle, the Kansas City Prophets and International House of Prayer - Kansas City

By: Bob Scott

Narrated by: Bob Scott

Over the last few decades, many dark secrets have been pouring out of Christian communities around the world. Most of them focus on some form of misuse of trust or abuse at the hands of church leaders. For centuries religious leaders have “circled the wagons” in an attempt to preserve the money-making institutions they lead. The result has been a continual cycle of abuse and the disillusioned leaving the institutional church world in droves.

From 1982-1989, author Bob Scott founded and pastored the Kansas City Fellowship with his friend and then brother-in-law Mike Bickle. Over that same time though they began to have very different perspectives about what and how things were transpiring in their church community. The most significant issue was how Mike was using a group of unusually gifted men later labeled “The Kansas City Prophets” and developing a mythology around himself through what he called “The Prophetic History”. It would eventually become a source of deep pain for Bob as Mike would accuse him of being deceived, disloyal and wanting to lead the church astray.

The tragic developments with Mike Bickle and the International House of Prayer in the Fall of 2023 left hundreds of thousands hurt and confused. The spiritual equations they had been given suddenly did not add up and the disillusionment that set in was painful to watch. For Bob, it was like watching a movie rerun. He had spent decades trying to heal the disillusioned and brokenhearted from the demise of Dominion Christian School and KCF. Suddenly he was thrust back into service in a pseudo religious MASH hospital trying to help people find their spiritual equilibrium again.

This book is Bob’s Postmortem on what went wrong and why, in the hope that future ministry leaders will learn and grow from it. The stories and perspectives in the book will be eye opening for many and confirming for others. It will give you insight and understanding from behind-the-scenes stories that few know.

©2024 Bob Scott (P)2024 Bob Scott

Refreshing truthful & down to earth

The author tells the human story of many self proclaimed prophets, and calls us all back to the self sacrificial values of Jesus. Helpful for anyone seeking perspective and a new beginning after “charismania”.

A ‘Must Read’ former insiders perspectives on the Fall of Mike Bickle, IHOP KC and the KC Prophets

As a resident in the KC Metro area and a brief attender of Bickles church in the late 80’s, I knew relatively little about what went on there. This book is written by someone who worked with Mike Bickle long before Mike started his KC ministry and through Bickles initial rise to fame in the 80’s. The author does a good job of telling the story of Mikes rise and the ‘fatal flaws’ already present long before the wheels came off the ‘Mike Bickle’ train.

I also appreciate that he chose to let the victims of Bickles sexual assaults tell their own story (see Julie Roys YouTube channel for those) and instead focused on the parts he knows best…the internal workings of the people, politics and personalities that enabled and facilitated a culture of abuse.