Some Said They Blundered: Breaking My Decades Of Silence On Mike Bickle, The Kansas City Prophets and International House of Prayer- Kansas City

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. Whether you are Catholic or Protestant, you have not been spared these painful stories. For centuries religious leaders have “circled the wagons” in an attempt to preserve the money-making institutions they lead. Scripture verses have been used to try and silence people who were victims of their abuse. Words like “Gossiper” or “Slanderer” are thrown around carelessly to diminish people’s stories. The result has been a continual cycle of abuse and the disillusioned leaving the institutional church world in droves. In 1982, author Bob Scott founded the Kansas City Fellowship with his friend and then brother-in-law Mike Bickle. It would begin a wonderful, nearly decade long period, of building relationships that would last a lifetime. 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. A friendship that began as teenagers was suddenly over. On the advice of fellow ministry colleagues who were concerned about his well being, Bob would have to leave the city and head to California with his family for a few years. In 1993, Bob would meet David Pytches, the author of “Some Said It Thundered” which was released in 1990. That book was instrumental in putting Mike and the KCF church on the map internationally and giving them great influence. During their meeting, Bob discovered that David had been prevented from meeting with him in 1989 by both Mike & Jack Deere as he was researching the book. As they discussed significant information missing from David’s book, he made a promise to David that one day he would write a sequel and set the record straight while titling it “Some Said They Blundered”. They had a good laugh about it. 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. Bob has spent the last 40 years as a spiritual counselor and consultant to not only struggling church leaders but those in the Sports, Entertainment, Business and Geo-Political sectors who are all struggling with how they navigate their faith outside the church world. In those sectors, when there is failure, a common practice is to do a Postmortem to dissect, discover and decide what went wrong to learn from it. It’s not criticism to tear down but critique to build up. 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. The purpose of the book is to bring healing to the brokenhearted and strengthen those that feel weak because of their pain. It was written by someone who bears those same scars and has walked the journey of disorientation, disillusionment, depression and feeling betrayed. — ASIN: B0DFW9NZTM | ISBN13: 9798218478155 | ISBN-13: 979-8218478155