The ‘Most Spiritually Abusive Sermon I’ve Ever Heard’: Former IHOPKC Staff
What happens when a church leader claims to speak for God—and uses that authority to excuse sexual abuse?
On Sunday, Lisa Bickle Stribling—sister of disgraced International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC) founder Mike Bickle—did just that in a sermon at Kansas City’s Hope City Church. In it, she dismissed the 17 credible sex abuse allegations against Bickle as “exotic trash.” And she insisted the church must stop exposing sin in its ranks…