Seasoned worldwide evangelist sees though Potter's House cult.

Written on Sun Aug 5, 2007

I spoke to an aquaintence of mine who has been an evangelist all over the world for many years. He's recently moved back to the U.K and is looking for a church and guess which church he should walk into? That's right! It's the Potter's House!  

My friend attended a service run by Wembley backstabber John Onelum on sunday 29th July morning. John preached on persistance which turned out to be a very boring sermon.

My evangelist friend immediately noticed the unbalanced domination by the men of the church. He also noticed the bizzarre ritualistic way in which they persistantly shouted  'amen' without any real reason. The altar calls were clearly manipulative and the hyperactive manner of praying, especially the pastor was another sign of emotional manipulation.

Onelum had already spoken to my friend a week before on the phone. However the evangelist definitely will not be going back there. The manipulation of the pastor in particular stood out for him.  

It reminded him a lot of the Jesus army cult. 

I told him that Onelum was the third pastor that I knew of there in the last several years. I also told him that this is common pattern among fellowship churches. His immediate response having seen the manipulative nature of one of these churches and upon being told that the fellowship was a pyramid structure of authority with a mother church in London was to explain that the reason why they move pastors around is so the head church can remain the central hub of powerin the uk and to prevent congregations from being too loyal to their own pastors. He also believed that Walthamstow does this so that other U.K churches will not reach the place where they can have their own conferences.

This was of particular interest to me as Van Diermann was lathe to have Beyerman and the U.K churches break away to have their own conference and no longer attend in Holland. In the 90's the Scottish fellowship wanted their own conference but Walthamstow insisted that the had to launch works abroad before they could be allowed to do that  even though Walthamstow had no mission workers abroad when they recieved conference status. South London also put a man into Namibia but never recieved conference status so My evangelist friend seems very discerning on this one. He's hit the nail on the head.

All it took him was one service at a Potter's House church and he saw the manipulation and unhealthy level of male dominance there.

One final thing was noted by my friend and that was the way in which the pastor sought to avoid him after the service. After the service finished he dissapeared into a cupboard for ages and didn' even talk with him. All in all this was unusual behaviour from a minister who seemed to feel very insecure about a non potters House evangelist coming to his church. 

I've recieved other complaints about Onelum's behaviour from his first church before the Wembley split of 2003. Clearly Onelum is a man with problems. This is certainly an unhealthy church.

regards...naboth675