Hello .Some great posts here. I read a post by a lighthouse disciple about a year ago on a pro potters house message board. I didn't stir anything up. I just asked him how things were going over there and the group owner wiped my post off the board. He put it down to the need to 'protect the guy from such questions. ONE HAS TO WONDER WHY HE NEEDS SUCH PROTECTION. I wonder if you wou
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I was involved in a pentecostal group which has chruches called 'the Potters House, The Door, Victory Chapel' for about ten years and they ran {and still do run} what are called 'boot camps' for children. I personally knew a sergent in the U.S military police who was based in England and had a senior role in the church boot camp. The whole thing was based on a military regi
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As the Door has been mentioned here and a couple of fellowshippers in that organisation have defended this organisation I would like to make a few points about the door's head church {or mother church} led by a pastor Harold Warner. Firstly Warner has fallen out with one of his pastors {Ken Haining} whom Wraner lied to and shunted out of the fellowship before this organisation succeeded in s
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The Potters House/Door/ Victory Chapel has been enmeshed in controversy since the beginning. I can personaly testify to the abuse that goes on there and have collected numerous testimonies of people hurt by the organisation. I have also collected several links to sites which report on what the Potters House has been up to over the years. Anyone interested can visit a message board at Fee
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By the way, slam the door is up and running again. There are new news stories on there as well. Wayman Mitchell {the head of the cfm organisation} has tried to get a pastor thrown into prison in Fiji. This pastor has broken away from his organisation and become independant. You'll be glad to know that Mitchell's attempt was thrown out of court. Unfortunately this is only one of the
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When Toppin moved the church to the 'prophetic' building, the owners were in a difficult financial situation and so Toppin used that to get almost unlimited access to the building for a fraction of the money he was paying for the building he moved the church out of. When he went full time he announced that he was doing this by faith as the church wasn't putting enough money in the
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After many years in the potters house I saw first hand the manipulative and dangerous work of pastor ernie toppin. He taught that everything he said from the pulpit was from God and that it should be taken, not as him speaking but God speaking. He then went on to say that those who did not like it were in rebellion to God and could leave if they didn't like it. Some of the things he teache
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