International House of Prayer-Kansas City founder Mike Bickle has violated Scripture and should be permanently disqualified from any kind of church leadership position, a team of church leaders and professional therapists said in a report issued Friday.
A return to leadership, the panel wrote in its report, would not be “scripturally sound.”
“In addition to causing unnecessary trauma to his past victims, this could put potential future victims at risk and blemish the reputations of any churches and Christians who would return him to such a position,” said the report, issued by the Pastoral Recommendation Team, which was established to make recommendations to IHOPKC after an independent investigation found that Bickle sexually abused women…