In a new report, the eyewitness testimony is massive and for me decisive. Awful things happened under his leadership.
Yes, exposing darkness is part of my calling. I hope no reader makes excuses for unsound leaders or throws accusations at me. They should read this article I wrote before they do:
Don’t Make Excuses for Unsound Christian Leaders
Now let’s begin without a longer introduction.
Michael L. Brown has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He never consummated his misconduct, and this matters because he did not become “one flesh” with the women (1 Cor. 6:16). However, he still should have been fired instantly from his positions at the school he started. This humiliation would have done him some good. Also, his efforts to cover it up from the first day has been awful and deceptive. Damage control. Manage the narrative.
Here is his apology:
My assessment: the apology is inadequate because he does not speak of the problem, but will wait until the Firefly report comes out, which it did, here:
Here is his call not to “divide over” him, on May 7, 2025:
So what are we supposed to do? Forget about him? Stop talking about it? No, this is his self-vision of being a national leader. Hey church, don’t divide over me!
And this takes me to the root of the problem. He sees himself as a national leader and elder and father of the Body and an apostolic elder at a local mega-church. He also saw (and sees) himself as a national Revolutionary Leader. He is going to lead another Jesus Revolution. Who said so? He did! The Charismatic Movement cannot survive without him! These are wrongheaded self-promotions. No one can be an elder and father of the Body. “Apostolic elder” does not exist in Scripture. Those titles don’t apply to him. He’s not indispensable.
[…] All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. (1 Peter 5:5-6, NIV)
And so when he promotes himself, he gets in trouble. He loves the camera. He appears arrogant. Therefore God opposes him. God may have sent a lying spirit to him. Brown seems awfully confused when I hear him speak about solving church problems or defending and criticizing hyper-charismatics and then defending them again, for example. He zigzags. When I heard him discuss politics, particularly Trump, Dr. Brown did not have wisdom. He is not a son of Issachar, who understands the times and knows what the church should do (1 Chron. 12:32). Evidence of confusion and absence of convictions. No national leader here.
More examples: Because of his self-aggrandizement as a national leader and revolutionary leader and apostolic elder and (regular ol’) elder and father of the Body, he barges into areas where he has no expertise. He’ll fix it!
However, over the years he has offered terrible advice. For Globe International and its orphanage in Haiti and accusations of child rape by two overseers there, he told concerned parents who had just adopted abused children, to trust the internal investigation and not call civil authorities. Bad counsel. This to me is much more serious than his taking advantage of a young woman at the school of ministry he started. She’s old enough to heal now (around 40). What about all the children at the orphanage who were raped? How do they heal? He still needs to answer for his silence in allowing a child predator, whom he rightly fired from his school, to oversee the orphanage.
Ezekiel 3:18 and 33:6 say that if God tells you (the watchman) to warn of an evil person (or alert the orphanage), and but you remain silent and he commits evil (the predator did), the watchman (Dr. Brown) will be held accountable for the blood. Dr. Brown wrote a book Our Hands Are Stained with Blood, accusing the entire church (you and me) of being silent about the persecution of Jews. But I had nothing to do with historical persecution. My hands are not stained with blood. But his hands are.
He also offered bad counsel to Forerunner Church in Kansas City (IHOP KC), just at the initial reports about Mike Bickle’s horrible misconduct. He told the people to keep information to themselves. I now believe that Brown has indeed been listening to a lying spirit, sent by God himself, who is judging him.
See the links below for other questionable advice and coverups.
He’s going to come back to ministry, regardless of the Firefly report.
Now I see his elders team recommends that he returns, here:
Elder Team Rejects Sexual Abuse Findings Against Michael Brown, Recommends Return to Ministry (click on the link inside the article to see the original recommendation)
Mercy Culture church celebrates his return with confetti:
(Where is his wife in all these celebrations, I wonder?) Mercy Culture is deceived. Landon Schott is deceived.
However, since he is going to return no matter what we say, what is the solution for him? He does not occupy any of those inflated leadership positions. He must stop using those titles. Instead, he is a teacher and evangelist (to his fellow Jews). That’s it. “But he has a radio show!” Yes, but that simply makes him a teacher and evangelist with a radio show. When he stays in those two lanes, he is effective. Very effective. We shall see if he remains there.
My prediction: he won’t. He will continue to promote himself beyond his own call and the biblical titles of teacher and evangelist. For this reason, I believe God will continue to oppose and keep him under judgment. Look for more confusion about national church issues. Charismatic churches should not look to him for guidance or leadership. His latest “share from his heart” on May 7, 2025, confirms my prediction. Off he goes into ministry!
Of course the invaluable Roys Report has an article with a link to the Firefly report on his misconduct:
Michael Brown Engaged in ‘Sexually Abusive Misconduct,’ Report Says
Here is RR’s article about his bad advice on the investigation into the rape of orphaned children in Haiti:
Wake and Win Podcast has kept track of Brown’s deceptive ministry, with interviews. Look for their videos, especially the one with Ron Cantor. Excellent! A wise and fair man.
So has Minor Prophets (look for their interview with Ron Cantor).
Here is their excellent criticism and analysis of Brown’s elders team’s recommendation:
The Remnant Radio interviewed Ron Cantor here:
The Dr. Michael Brown Report: Did the Board Get it Wrong? Ron Cantor Weighs In.
And here is a further solution. The pastoral epistles guide us to expose the abuse and misconduct and shine the light in the darkness.
19 Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses. 20 But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning. (1 Tim. 5:19-20)
Those verses are down-to-earth realities, not over-spiritualized nonsense. Dr. Brown claims he is a national leader and elder and father of the Body, whatever that means. (He’s not, but that’s his claim.) So according to his own words, he fits the truth of those verses. More than three witnesses are stepping forward to corroborate and expose the deeds of darkness.
New Report
After I wrote the above information, I just now finished reading Ron Cantor’s excellent and thorough report, written by himself and other wise men and women of God. It took me a long time to get through it. Very revealing and disturbing.
Wow! This is a report of 134 pages in single space format. Many people in Dr. Brown’s world were hurt by him mainly and his wife Nancy Brown sometimes, either directly or indirectly, mostly directly. It is full of first-hand eyewitness testimony, from people who lived through it.
One woman testifies that she sought help from him during a rough divorce, and all he did was scream at her loudly. He said her children would be cursed if she got a divorce. He somehow found the phone numbers of her supporters and ordered them to withdraw their support from her. He screamed at them, traumatizing them. I believe her and their stories.
Missy Cava writes that Dr. and Mrs. Brown lived in a mansion (her word), while the staff at the school did not get paid:
Under the Browns’ leadership, the school would go on to withhold pay from staff for months on end, with no other way to support ourselves while Dr. Brown continued to write and sell books, preach, and speak where honorariums were provided. Our staff Christmas parties are held at their mansion, while I was barely able to pay for the most basic utilities.
The arrogance of holding Christmas parties at their mansion, knowing as Mrs. Brown surely did, since she was on an office manager at the school, that the staff was not paid. She even complained in her own recent reply posted elsewhere that they almost lost their house. They were under stress!
These verses come to mind:
4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.(James 5:4-5)
The context was agrarian, but the principle of withholding pay is the same. Now the day of reckoning (“slaughter”) has reached Dr. Brown. Good.
There are many other very sad and awful stories of abuse by the hyper-charismatic and cover-up culture the Browns created and often by the Browns themselves. I believe the witnesses. The Browns often behaved irrationally, leaving their victims baffled and confused. Dr. and Mrs. Brown’s motive seems to be to protect his “mighty” ministry and his self-appointed national leadership status.
I really believe, once again, that the root cause is his self-promotion to national revolutionary leader. That’s why he gave himself permission to start a new school a mile and a half next to the Brownsville school, after Pastor John Kirkpatrick fired him. Nothing was going to take away from his awesome calling. The Browns had to protect this status at all costs, even if it meant steamrolling over everyone, great or small, who stood in their way with truth.
Bottom line: per the report those two are liars and cover-up artists and untrustworthy. Don’t believe it? Too harsh? Read every word of the long report. He had his chance to be be the head leader of his organization, and he blew it, badly. There is no way he was ever a national leader.
Now I know he is not fit for ministry. He truly is influenced (though not possessed) by an evil spirit, a lying spirit, who has gained access through his arrogance and narcissistic personality.
He must not return to ministry. People must avoid him and stop contributing to his ministry and unsubscribe to his channels. Churches and parachurch ministries should avoid him.
Mercy Culture church (and other hyper-charismatic churches) who promote him must repent or suffer the slow-motion judgment of God. along with him. He is certainly not a national leader.
Run from him!
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