Criticism and Controversy
Wayman Mitchell, The Potter's House & Victory Chapel churches have all been heavily criticised for their cult-like activity. A television station in Massachusetts did a three part investigational series exposing questionable activity, including coerced family disconnection and questionable money handling.
Ronald Enroth's, Churches That Abuse contains an account of alleged abuse within a Potter's House church. His follow-up book in 1994, Recovering From Churches That Abuse, also contained an alleged account of abuse.
In January 2002, Charisma News, a Christian news magazine dealing mainly with Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity reported a major exodus of some 160 churches from the Potter's House Movement in the United States. The reason for the split, according to Charisma News, was "because of unhealthy control, and after (members) leave they are afraid to talk about their experiences." A former pastor interviewed in the Charisma News article, when asked about allegations of abuse, said "There are families who have not spoken for years, brothers who are pastors all the way to the Philippines who were separated by this group and had years of not even speaking, churches that have been deliberately split, children who don't talk to their parents."
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