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The Roys Report

The ‘Most Spiritually Abusive Sermon I’ve Ever Heard’: Former IHOPKC Staff, Pt. 2

The Roys Report

Julie Roys

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.6714 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In an attempt to defend her brother Mike Bickle, Lisa Stribling preached a sermon that excuses sin, shames victims, and shields abusers.  

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0:00.0

I'm telling you from this moment on, these stories are over.

0:12.2

It's just, it's bizarre a world.

0:14.9

So first off, I mean, I thought of Proverbs 1813 that says to answer before listening

0:20.6

is folly and shame.

0:22.6

Wow.

0:23.0

So she's immediately showing her folly, showing her foolishness to make such declarative

0:30.1

statements about something that she out of her own mouth says, I haven't, I don't know

0:34.6

that side of the story, but I'm going to tell you the way it is.

0:49.3

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

0:55.2

I'm Julie Roy's, and this is going to be part two of my interview with Nathan and Rachel Steele,

1:01.9

as well as Lance Ford, addressing a sermon that Lisa Stribling, who is a pastor at Hope City Church

1:08.0

in Kansas City, that she gave on Sunday, August 3rd.

1:13.2

And she basically said that Mike Bickle, who has been credibly accused of sexually abusing 17 women,

1:20.5

that he needs to be pardoned, that we need to get over it,

1:23.2

that the whole church needs to get out of this business of exposing sin within herself.

1:28.2

And, you know, it's all covered by the cross, and it's all good.

1:32.0

And some of that sounds biblical, right?

1:33.9

Like we listen to that and we go, okay, yeah, yeah, our sin is cast as far as east is from the west.

1:39.7

But does that apply to biblical leadership within the church?

1:43.4

Does that apply to a man who, by all counts now, appears to be a wolf in chief's clothing?

1:52.0

So we're going to address that.

1:53.2

We're going to go through this message because I know that a lot of you listen to it and went,

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