Talk:Mike Bickle

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"Mike's teaching emphasizes how to grow in passion for Jesus through intimacy with God. IHOP is promoting a extravagant, radical, militant group who believes they are going to become gods, eat from the tree of life,(and therefore live forever) and purge the church of unbelievers, finally ruling with Christ for 1000 years with an iron rod." There, ladies and gentlemen, is your POV. In fact, we have two conflicting POV's in adjacent sentences. MJSkia1 00:11, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


You are correct in a couple of areas but very off in a couple of others. Yes, Mike's teachings emphasize growing in passion for Jesus through intimacy with God. IHOP does promote extravagent obedience and radical love for Jesus. But IHOP is by no means a militant group. They practice the beatitudes of Matthew 5. The pursue a sermon on the mount lifestyle. They believe that the truest place of "fighting" is in the place of intercession, on thier knees before the throne of God.

Mike Bickle, the director of the International House of Prayer, places an emphasis on complete surrender to Jesus Christ, knowing the love that Christ has for His bride (the church), and the end times (eschatology).

:I was just quoting the article to explain why I put the disputed neutrality tag up. MJSkia1 02:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


IHOP does not teach or believe that they will become gods, as quoted above. They are not militant. That is not correct.


IHOP is one of the most biblically sound places I have ever been.

Not sure where MJSKIia1 is getting his information? IHOP/Bickle in NO way teaches that people will become gods. There is no purging of unbeleivers or ruling with an iron rod. IHOP teaches conservative Christian theology which is Jesus crucified for the human race which he loves in an extravagant way. There is also a huge emphasis on being holy and loving God and others.


  • Comment pasting the statement of belief from their website is bad form. An external link would be much more appropriate. It's okay to correct invidious errors, but Wikipedia is not a place for advocacy. Please consider editting the content to be NPOV. I'm willing to give it a shot, but not now, as I'm a bit busy.

Aminorex 06:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

hi this seems to be a very bias peice..there is no mention of the kansas city prophets,mike was a main player in that group..the group seemed to generate extreame opinions for and against in many christians...more worrying is that ihop as been the subject of various debates (see sermon index for example)..around the subject of bridal theology,with some people arguing that ihop have lowered the doctrine of the bride and bride groom into a nearly romantic relationship..see andrew storms site for various peices on this subject wov1


The quote "..rejected the doctrine of the Trinity." directly contradicts the current stated doctrinal position on his website: "WE BELIEVE that the one true God exists eternally in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that these, being one God, are equal in deity, power, and glory." If rejecting the Trinity is something he USED to do, he certainly doesn't do so now. Confident confessions boldly proclaimed on a website do not come overnight, he must have changed his belief about this a long time ago. Why judge the man based upon something that he used to think?

Knowing Mike's background, I would find it extremely surprising if he denied the trinity even long ago. I believe the statement that he denied the trinity is not and never was true of Bickle.

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