“From among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.” -Acts 20:30-31
SHOOT THE MESSENGER COVER-UP
Tony Miano wrote an article on February 8th, 2020, in which he addressed Christians biting and devouring one another. He provides several compelling quotes from long dead authors to make a solid case against Christians needlessly taking up pitchforks and torches against each other. On the surface it’s a good article, but the timing of its writing is not arbitrary or innocent. It comes on the heals of Kevin Jandt releasing several articles that expose Mike Reid’s dangerous and perverse teaching and practices.
Mike Reid is Tony’s pastor. Kevin’s last article (Deception, Abuse & Disqualification) came out January 14th. It’s primarily a devastating exposé of Mike’s ministry, but Tony’s complicit role in advancing and defending Mike’s alarming perversion of pastoral ministry is touched on as well. All of Kevin’s articles confirm the facts of the warning I’ve been giving for over three years (here, here, and here). Many of Tony’s recent tweets are congruous with the message and aim of his article. They all serve as an oblique attempt to shoot the messenger (Kevin Jandt) and mitigate the effects of his message.
WHO’S KEVIN JANDT AND WHY DOES IT MATTER
Who was Kevin Jandt to me in 2017? A brother in Christ, thoroughly beguiled by Mike Reid, who: was under Mike’s perverse pastorate with his wife and children for nine years, served as a deacon, helped produce Mike’s “Ask a Pastor” videos, and publicly defended Mike’s ministry in direct opposition to my warnings — utilizing Mike’s well practiced shoot the messenger methodology against me.
Who is Kevin Jandt to me today? A brother in Christ, no longer beguiled by Mike Reid. Now, independent from each other and from very different starting points, we’re both working to expose Mike Reid’s undeniably dangerous perversion of Christianity and pastoral ministry. Now, we’re both targets of Mike and Tony’s shoot the messenger cover-up. You can see below where Kevin historically came to Mike and Tony’s defense on Facebook.
KEVIN AND HIS FAMILY SPENT 9 YEARS UNDER MIKE REID’S PERVERSION OF PASTORAL MINISTRY
In God’s perfect timing and grace, after 9 years, Kevin Jandt and his family came to see Mike’s ministry for the dangerous perversion of Christianity and pastoral ministry that it is. They left Grace Fellowship Church, moved far away from Iowa, found a genuine church, are active in Gospel ministry, and Kevin is pursuing a Master of Divinity Degree. Kevin’s not grinding an axe of bitterness against Grace Fellowship Church (GFC), Mike Reid, or Tony Miano…and neither am I. We’re Biblically laboring to love and protect Christ’s Church from the clear and present danger he and his family experienced first hand. Join me, and many others, in praying the Lord will use Kevin’s testimony and articles to:
- Rescue other individuals and families from GFC.
- Compel men and women who are ignorant of and/or apathetic toward the situation to take the necessary Biblical stand against Mike Reid’s perverse ministry for the protection of Christ’s Church.
- Compel knowingly compromised men and ministries who actively promote and associate with Mike Reid, Tony Miano, and GFC on social media, at the G3 Conference, and elsewhere to repent and cease their compromise and complicity.
“Controversy is an odious thing; but there are days when it is a positive duty. Peace is an excellent thing; but, like gold, it may be bought too dear. Unity is a mighty blessing; but it is worthless if it is purchased at the cost of truth. Once more I say, Open your eyes and be on your guard.” -J.C. Ryle
KEVIN’S GRACIOUS WARNING TO THE CHURCH:
KEVIN EXPLAINS HOW TONY MIANO WAS RECRUITED AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TONY’S ROLE IN LENDING CREDIBILITY AND OPENING DOORS FOR MIKE REID:
I was there in 2015, at the Shepherds’ Conference, when Mike Reid and Nick Rolland began to beguile and recruit Tony. It was there that I first met Mike, Nick, and Kevin. It was there that Mike Reid shook my hand, pulled me in for a half-hug, and then leaned in and kissed 💋 me without warning or welcome. Hear Mike talk about how he first kissed 💋 Tony Miano without warning. The recording is from one of Mike’s now deleted “Ask a Pastor” videos in which he and Tony taught “holy” kissing together.)
KEVIN DESCRIBES HOW MIKE REID ABUSES PASTORAL AUTHORITY, SYSTEMATICALLY MEETS ALONE WITH MEN’S WIVES, INVADES MARRIAGES, AND UNDERMINES HUSBANDS IN THE NAME OF “SHEPHERDING” WOMEN:
KEVIN EXPOSES MIKE REID’S PERVERSE “PASTORAL” FIXATION ON SEX, MIKE’S DEMAND TO KNOW EXPLICIT DETAILS OF WOMEN’S MARITAL SEX (FREQUENCY, TECHNIQUE, NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS), AND HOW MIKE USES EXPLICIT DETAILS FROM HIS OWN SEX LIFE TO HELP THE WOMEN FEEL COMFORTABLE SHARING:
NICK AND MIKE SHARE A PERVERTED PATTERN OF PASTORAL MINISTRY
THE BIBLE WARNS OF PERVERSE MEN RISING UP SPEAKING PERVERSE THINGS
In Acts 20:28-31, the Apostle Paul warned the elders of Ephesus, and all of Christ’s Church for all time, that men will rise up from within the visible church “speaking perverse things” to lead disciples away morally, theologically, and physically. He both establishes and actively exemplifies the essential ongoing pastoral ministry of “warning everyone” about dangerous false teachers who come from without and rise up from within the body of Christ to lead disciples away from Christ, truth, and righteousness. Paul warned everyone about Hymenaeus, Philetus, and Alexander the coppersmith by name — providing a Holy Spirit inspired example of how we are to warn Christ’s Church about false teachers and their perverse teachings. I don’t know of a man who has taught and stubbornly defended a more perverse set of doctrines and deeds under the guise of “shepherding.”
LESSONS LEARNED FROM TULLIAN AND HIS ENABLERS
How do perverse teachers speak perverse things, do perverse things, brazenly put their perverse teaching up on the world wide web, and get away with it for years? When men act as enablers and refuse to hear and heed Acts 20:28-31 and the other applicable Scriptures. Tullian Tchividjian had his defenders and enablers. Mike Reid and Tony Miano have theirs. The men, evangelists, apologists, and pastors who knowingly promote Mike Reid and Tony Miano are exhibit ‘A’ of how men like Tullian Tchividjian are able to bring scandal to Christ’s Church and harm so many women for so long. It’s destructive enabling whether it’s motivated by friendship, Tony’s relative fame, or just that it’s easier to ignore the obvious truth than to do the hard work of dealing with dangerous error. Not only are we to cease fellowship with men engaged in perverse, unfruitful works of darkness — we’re to expose them for the protection of others. Enabling perverse men, their perverse deeds, and their perverse teaching is willful defiance of Ephesians 5:11.
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” -Ephesians 5:11
MIKE’S SHOOT THE MESSENGER “RESPONSE TO SLANDER” IS ACTUALLY FAR MORE OF A CONFESSION THAN A DENIAL
Mike Reid’s release of his “Response to Slander” (see below) reveals that he, Nick Rolland, Tyler Bolkema, and Tony Miano (elders & evangelist of GFC) have been effectively running a slanderous shoot the messenger cover-up for three years behind the scenes. I want to publicly thank Mike for finally bringing his hodgepodge of obvious lies to the light of day. It’s good to now know the concoction of lies that’ve long been told in the dark to cover up Mike’s shameful perversion of “shepherding” ministry. As transparently fallacious as they are, we now understand better why some men have ignored the warning they’ve been given and have continued to endorse, support, partner with, and promote Tony Miano and Mike Reid despite their undeniably dangerous and perverse doctrines and practices.
Here are the sequential steps to Mike Reid and Tony Miano’s shoot the messenger cover-up methodology. The first and most vital step is to delete the evidence. Second, lie boldly and tell everyone who’ll listen, “We didn’t say that! Chuck edited our words to make us say really crazy, disgusting, indefensible, dangerous things!” The third and final step is to shoot the messenger with a direct assault on his character and his credibility by telling everyone, “Chuck’s a liar, slanderer, gossip, reviler, and a servant of the Devil“…and keep on saying it for three years…without providing a shred of the necessary proof that your words were actually cut up mid sentence and pieced together to make you say things you didn’t say. Once you’ve thoroughly shot the messenger, his message (no matter how true) is dismissed as mere lies, slander, gossip, and reviling.
MIKE DOESN’T SEEM TO GET THAT ANYONE AND EVERYONE CAN HEAR THE MATTER FROM HIS OWN LIPS WITHOUT TALKING TO HIM OR ME…AND THAT PROVERBS 18:13 & 17 CUTS BOTH WAYS
“He who answers a matter before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him…The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.” -Proverbs 18:13 & 17
Mike references Proverbs 18:13 & 17 in his “Response to Slander” as if it’s a good defense for him. It isn’t. What Mike missed is that anyone and everyone can hear Mike’s uncut, unedited, full length perverse teaching for themselves. They don’t actually need to go to him or me to hear the matter or answer the matter. They can hear the matter from Mike and Tony’s own lips right here in edited for brevity form and the full unedited form: Mike Reid’s Perverse & Dangerous Doctrines & Practices. They can examine both his teaching and his claims of cut and paste, crafty editing simply by listening to and comparing the edited versions with the unedited versions for themselves. They don’t need to take my word that they weren’t diabolically edited or Mike’s word that they were.
Nevertheless, with Mike making his “Response to Slander” public, we now know Mike, Nick, Tyler, and Tony have been accusing me of lying, slandering, gossiping, reviling, and serving the Devil behind the scenes for over three years. According to Mike, “godly men have practiced Proverbs 18:13, 17 by seeking out [their] testimony,” and they’ve all “been able to see through Chuck’s slander and gossip.” How’d the “godly men” obey Proverbs 18:13 & 17 without talking with me? They didn’t. How’d the “godly men” Biblically determine the dangerous and perverse teachings that came from Mike and Tony’s own mouths were actually just “slander and gossip?” They didn’t. They just took Mike and Tony’s good word on it. How’d the “godly men” compare these videos with Mike and Tony’s deleted videos and verify that Mike and Tony didn’t really say or teach unconscionable things? They didn’t. Did Mike and Tony actually show the “godly men” a single example where their words were “cut up mid sentence, and pieced together” to make them say shocking things they didn’t actually say? They didn’t, because it’s impossible to show where their teachings were “cut up mid sentence, and pieced together” when it didn’t happen. It’s odd that not one of the “godly men” who talked with Mike, Nick, Tyler, and/or Tony in accordance with Proverbs 18:13 & 17 ever talked with me about my supposed evil video editing skills before believing Mike’s unsubstantiated accusations of lying, slander, gossip, reviling, and serving the Devil?
DIABOLICAL EDITING MADE ME SAY IT
Mike and Tony’s backroom claims of diabolical editing are obvious lies designed to cover up their perverse doctrine and deeds. Why did they delete all those audios and videos if they had nothing to hide? If it was truly safe, solid, and sound Biblical teaching, why don’t they put them back up and provide the necessary proof of how they were supposedly cut and pasted to make them say, teach, and defend undeniably wacky, dangerous, and perverse things they didn’t really say, teach, or defend? Seems like a no-brainer.
DELETING THE EVIDENCE IS ESSENTIAL TO A COVER-UP
Take a look at Tony Miano’s long list of deleted “Ask a Pastor” videos below. Why delete the videos where Mike and Tony sat together teaching men to kiss the women of the church and teaching that “repentant” pedophiles can become pastors with a “no limitations” ministry that includes meeting alone with children, just like “repentant” adulterers can become pastors who systematically meet alone with the women of the church to “shepherd” them? What could possibly motivate someone to delete that safe, solid, sound instruction?
LOVE OF GUNS MADE HIM DO IT
In Nick Rolland’s portion of GFC’s official “Response to Slander,” he tells the fabricated story of how it was Mike’s pacifist teaching in one of his “Ask a Pastor” videos that supposedly compelled Chuck O’Neal to start “slanderous attacks on Mike Reid and GFC.” I’ll take a moment to show this is an absurd lie.
Nick’s ridiculous story is that Chuck is such a wild eyed gun fanatic that Chuck lost his mind, declared war on Mike Reid because of Mike’s radical pacifism, and then started a slander campaign against Mike and one of Chuck’s best friends (Tony Miano). Make no mistake — Mike’s condemnation of Christians who serve in the military, his condemnation of Christians who serve as police officers, and his condemnation of Christians who own a gun for self defense and the defense of their families as premeditated murderers — disgusts me. It’s wholly unbiblical, and like so many of his doctrines, it’s dangerous. He’d strip the military and police force of all Christians. He’d have men stand by while unspeakable evil acts are committed against their families. Yep. I’m against that. It’s also crossed my mind that disarming the men of your congregation with extreme pacifist teachings is a good idea before you take over their home, take over their finances, take over their parenting, take over their marriage, take over their sex life…and embrace, kiss, and insist on regular private “shepherding” sessions with their wives.
In stark contrast to Nick’s lie, here are my brotherly admonitions and final words to Mike Reid regarding his pacifist teaching:
“My counsel is to take down the “Godly Men and Assault Rifles” discussion audio. It’s not Biblical. It’s not loving. It is unnecessarily offensive and divisive. I will love you either way, because you are a dear and courageous man, a genuine brother, a bold Gospel preacher, a protector of unborn babies…and my friend.”
With Love,
Chuck
PS. I remain in prayer for your recovery. Your ministry is vital. May the Lord soon strengthen you that you might press on for Christ, His Church, souls, and babies precious lives!
(Chuck ONeal, email to Mike Reid, June 2, 2016.)
USUALLY THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION IS THE BEST
What changed between Mike Reid and I? Why did I stop calling him “a dear and courageous man, a genuine brother, a bold Gospel preacher, a protector of unborn babies…and my friend” and start warning people that he is a dangerous man teaching dangerous doctrine and engaging in dangerous practices? How did I go from saying Mike’s “ministry is vital.” to saying, Mike’s “ministry is abhorrent?” Did I get my new NRA bumper sticker, wrap myself in the flag, and lose my gun loving mind? That’s what Nick Rolland would have you believe — and that’s an obvious lie. The simplest explanation and obvious truth is that I found out who Mike Reid really is (Mike Reid’s Perverse & Dangerous Doctrines & Practices).
WE DO KISS 💋 OTHER MEN’S WIVES, JUST NOT ON THE LIPS 💋
A few more sections of Mike’s half-baked “Response to Slander” beg to be brought to light. You’ll find they serve as Mike’s bumbling confession and confirmation of perversion rather than his brilliant defense. GFC’s newest elder, Tyler Bolkema, wrote this:
OK, MAYBE JUST ONE KISS ON THE LIPS
The testimony below is from the wife of a faithful minister of the Gospel who lives near Grace Fellowship Church in Davenport, Iowa. A man that I and several friends know. I’ve spoken with him on this matter and he adamantly confirms Mike Reid kissed his wife on the side of the mouth, without warning or welcome, on their second visit to Grace Fellowship Church.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH ALL THIS KISSING
Mike’s “Response to Slander” confirms that Mike and the men of the church do kiss the women. What could go wrong? Seems like history has proven that a whole lot can go wrong once the kissing starts. Apparently, one thing that can go wrong is that you can plant a kiss on a woman who doesn’t want you to on her second visit to the church.
Stop and think about all this kissing. Other than Mike’s five known rules seen on the right, have any definite parameters been set for all this “holy” kissing? Is all the kissing done in group settings or is it fine to kiss in a back classroom, the church office, the parking lot, and behind the church too? Is it OK to kiss off of the church property in more private residential settings? Do the men kiss the men as often as they kiss the men’s wives? Are the women allowed to initiate and kiss the men? Are the wives allowed to kiss the handsome single men or just the homely married men? Does a wife have any recourse if she notices her husband kissing the pretty single women more often than the other women? What does it say about a man’s heart if he kisses the pretty women more often? Is that a sign he has a lust issue or does he have the “spiritual gift” of appreciating feminine beauty? Conversely, what does it say about a man’s heart if he won’t kiss the pretty women? Is that a sure sign he has a lust problem or is he just wise? Do the women kiss the women? Are the young men and young women allowed to kiss? Do the young women kiss the young women? Do young men kiss young men? Are the boys and girls allowed to kiss? Do boys kiss boys? Do girls kiss girls? Are the middle aged men allowed to “holy” kiss the young women? Are the middle aged men allowed to “holy” kiss the teenage and preteen girls? Are newcomers to the church allowed to kiss the women, girls, and boys? How long do you have to be at the church before you can kiss other men’s wives, daughters, and sons? Are there criminal background checks done before the kissing starts?
Is all this kissing safe? Bear in mind, Mike teaches that serial adulterers can become pastors and meet alone with women and pedophiles can become pastors and meet alone with children. Yes. You read that right and you should now feel sick to your stomach. When you stack up Mike’s teachings and practices and think through how they relate to each other, you quickly realize Mike has designed the perfect church for every kind of predator.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH KISSING, HUGGING, TOUCHING, AND MEETING ALONE WITH OTHER MEN’S WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
Mike’s “Response to Slander” further confirms that Mike and his fellow elders systematically meet alone with the women of the church. To those who have heard what Mike and Tony have taught, their “Response to Slander” really is a confession, not a defense. Mike and his elders openly admit to rejecting the “Billy Graham Rule.” Tullian Tchividjian also rejected his grandfather’s obedience to Romans 13:14 and 1 Corinthians 6:18 — and we know how that ended. Tullian’s historic enablers and Mike’s current enablers have both said, “Rules schmules! What could possibly go wrong?”
WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH ADULTERERS AND PEDOPHILES BEING PASTORS WHO MEET ALONE WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN…AND ALL THIS HUGGING, KISSING, AND TOUCHING
You’ll see below, that Mike’s “Response to Slander” doesn’t stop at confirming that Mike meets alone with the women and that he and the men of the church are kissing the women, it shockingly confirms that Mike and his fellow elders believe “repentant” adulterers and pedophiles can be pastors and meet alone with women and children. Their moral and theological insanity keeps leaking out. They just can’t help themselves. Mike has repeatedly and expressly stated and defended “repentant” adulterers and pedophiles having a “no limitations” ministry in which they meet alone with women and children…and his so-called “Response to Slander” only further condemns him.
A PUBLIC CHALLENGE TO ANY ENABLERS WHO WANT TO DEFEND MIKE’S PERFECT PREDATORY PERVERSION OF PASTORAL MINISTRY
Mike Reid has created the perfect predatory perversion of pastoral ministry. If a man intent on preying upon women and children was given license to redesign pastoral ministry and set up a local church, he wouldn’t do anything different. This is not an inflammatory accusation of adultery or predatory criminal behavior. It is an indisputably accurate description of Mike Reid’s teaching and practice. I challenge any of Mike’s defenders and enablers to argue otherwise in the light of day.
Do your due diligence. Actually listen to all the full length audios and edited for brevity audios found here. Compare and contrast them. Search high and low for diabolical editing. You won’t find any.
Be sure to put your name on your public defense of “repentant” serial adulterers becoming pastors who embrace, kiss, and systematically meet alone with the women of the church for private “shepherding.” Please include your name, phone number, email, home address, church name, church phone number, church email, and church address with your defense of “repentant” pedophiles becoming pastors who meet alone with children for private “shepherding.” It’s time for Mike’s enablers to repent and take a stand against this evil or double down and defend it outright in the light of day.
MIKE AND TONY ADMIT ONE OF THEIR PEDOPHILE PASTORS MIGHT HARM CHILDREN, BUT SAY IT SHOULDN’T KEEP THEM FROM A “NO LIMITATIONS” MINISTRY
Don’t worry. What could go wrong? Mike’s teachings and practices are almost, pretty much, nearly completely safe! Mike has tested this out in his church for some time now and has this rock solid assurance to offer judgmental pharisees who don’t think pedophiles should be pastors and meet alone with children:
STOP THE MORAL AND THEOLOGICAL MADNESS!!!
After three years…it’s time for Mike Reid and Tony Miano’s moral and theological madness and their shoot the messenger cover-up to come to end. Apathy won’t do. Playing Swiss won’t do. Will those of you who have ignored the warning for three years now allow Mike and Tony to add Kevin Jandt, his wife, and other brave men and women to their shoot the messenger hit list? Are Kevin and his wife also to be dismissed as embittered anti-pacifist gun owners? What creative lies will Mike, Nick, Tyler, and Tony tell to explain how their once faithful deacon and defender, Kevin Jandt, has now supposedly lost his blooming mind and is waging war against poor Mike and Tony with lies, slander, gossip, and reviling in the service of the Devil? Will you allow Mike and Tony to malign the men and women who have been brave enough to stand up publicly and give their testimonies…testimonies that just happen to perfectly match the long list of aberrant and abhorrent teachings that came out of Mike and Tony’s own mouths?
Will you continue to promote Mike and Tony’s ministries and lend them credibility and encouragement on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram? Will you continue to hold their church signs and help them recruit new individuals and families to suffer under Mike’s predatory perversion of pastoral ministry in Iowa? Will you continue to help them export their twisted teaching to the African church already ravaged with sexual scandal? Will you continue to shamefully shake their hands and pull them in for hugs (and kisses) at the G3 Conference and elsewhere? Will the G3 Conference continue to promote Mike Reid and allow him to beguile and recruit unsuspecting sheep of the Lord’s fold as he walks around the conference giving out his bighearted hugs and kisses? This has to stop.
The upcoming 2020 G3 Conference workshops webpage has a revolving sequence of just three quotes in the left sidebar: an excellent quote from Dr. Steve Lawson, a great quote from Kofi Adu-Boahen, and a quote from Mike Reid celebrating how “like-minded” everybody is at G3. A wolf has thoroughly infiltrated the G3 Conference, he’s been elevated to quote-worthy status alongside Steve Lawson, and he deceptively uses both the conference itself and the connections he makes there as his sheep’s clothing to cover his dangerous doctrine and practices. When Mike taught his congregation from the pulpit how Biblical and morally safe it was for him to hug, kiss, and meet alone for weekly private “shepherding” meetings with the women of his church he strategically dropped Voddie Baucham’s name and mentioned how they bear-hugged at G3 to lend himself and his perverse teaching credibility. If Voddie knew who Mike Reid really is it would’ve been Mike’s last hug. This has to stop.
FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS BLASPHEME CHRIST AND HARM HIS CHURCH
Some of you are thinking, “Mike and Tony are my friends and I’m going to stand by them.“ I was Mike’s friend too, until I found out who he really was. Mike sent a large number of his congregants 2,000 miles from Iowa to attend my church’s evangelism conference in Oregon. My brother-in-law and his family, who live in Iowa, attended Mike’s church for a short time because I recommended it to them. Tony was one of my best friends and a constant ministry partner. I served on Tony’s board of advisors. I wrote the forward to one of Tony’s books. Tony stayed in my home and preached in my pulpit. Tony was like family to my wife and children. My children affectionately called him, “Uncle Tony.” If Mike and Tony told me they were being slandered by a servant of the Devil, I would have believed them too — until I saw and heard the readily available, abundant proof of the matter.
Mike and Tony know I’m no liar, slanderer, gossip, reviler, or servant of the Devil — and so do the men defending and enabling them. I’m a δοῦλος of Christ and a pastor who was forced by divine providence, not of my choosing or liking, to take a hard stand against a friend (Mike Reid) and an incredibly hard stand against a dear friend (Tony Miano) who was like family to me, my wife, and my children.
It’s understandable that men who know and trust Mike and Tony have been lied to and that they acted or failed to act based on misplaced trust. However, at some point their willingness to believe Mike and Tony’s shoot the messenger cover-up, their unwillingness take an honest look at the facts and actually listen to what Mike and Tony have taught and defended, and their failure to demand proof that Mike and Tony’s teachings were diabolically edited — leaves them culpable for blindly trusting them and continuing to enable them just like Tullian’s enablers before them.
WILL THE “GODLY MEN” PLEASE STAND UP!
It’s relatively easy to stand up against notorious Word of Faith, TBN, wolves in sheep’s clothing like Todd Bently. It’s hard to stand against dangerous men in your own theological camp. It’s harder yet to stand against one of your best friends when he gets bit, beguiled, and recruited by a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Faithful friends don’t let friends lose their minds and do nothing to win them back to moral and theological sanity and genuine service for Christ. Faithful friends don’t let friends blaspheme Christ and harm His Church. For the sake of Christ, His Gospel, His Church, and erring friends — we must be willing to take necessary stands. Don’t be an enabler.
Mike and Tony don’t want you to know that many godly men and women have already stood up. They don’t want you to know that many godly men and women have corrected and rebuked their moral and theological madness. They don’t want you to know they’ve lost endorsements from well known godly men and ministries who clearly heard their own perverse words come out of their own mouths and weren’t willing to swallow their obvious “Chuck edited the videos” lie. They don’t want you to know that Tony has lost financial support from godly long term supporters who dared to question the insanity coming out of Mike and Tony’s mouths and got nothing but an ugly rebuff or silence from Mike and Tony.
Join me in praying: that Mike and Tony’s defenders and enablers will wake up, repent, and stand up in defense of Christ’s Church; that solid men who haven’t yet stood decisively and taken Biblical action against this dangerous perversion of pastoral ministry will do so now; that the individuals and families in Iowa and Africa under Mike’s bewitching influence will be set free; that the G3 conference and other ministries will stop promoting and inviting wolves to come beguile and devour the Lord’s sheep; that Mike, Nick, Tyler, and Tony will repent and step down from ministry; that Grace Fellowship Church in Davenport, Iowa will be disbanded and the genuine believers who are there will find a true church with true undershepherds — and that this moral and theological madness will come to an end.
