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The Roys Report

The ‘Most Spiritually Abusive Sermon I’ve Ever Heard’: Former IHOPKC Staff

The Roys Report

Julie Roys

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.6714 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Stribling’s sermon defending her brother Mike Bickle ignited backlash. Now IHOPKC insiders expose its troubling theology and impact on abuse survivors.  

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There is a pardon being offered right now to the global church concerning Mike.

0:12.2

It's being offered right now from heaven to the body of Christ as a whole regarding the name of Mike Bickle.

0:19.1

And then, but to equate that with the one thing that's stopping this revival is the church's

0:24.6

lack of pardoning of Mike Bickle, I mean, just things like that, is absolute manipulation.

0:30.0

And just, that's why I say it's spiritually abusive, is you're, she's using a pure desire

0:35.1

in the heart of God's people and twisting it for her own kind of point and her own

0:39.8

gain.

0:51.4

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

0:57.3

I'm Julie Roy's. And today we're going to be discussing what one of my guests calls the most

1:02.2

manipulative and spiritually abusive sermon he's ever heard. He's referring to a sermon given last Sunday

1:08.6

by Lisa Stribling, the sister of Mike Bickle.

1:11.7

Bickle is the disgrace founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.

1:16.4

And if you've been following this story, you know that an independent investigation found

1:20.4

that Mike Bickle had sexually abused 17 women over several decades.

1:25.4

But in the sermon, we're about to unpack, Mike Bickle's sister, Lisa

1:28.8

Stribling, argues that the allegations are exotic trash. Stribbling is pastor at Hope City

1:35.1

Church in Kansas City, along with her husband, Ray Stribbling. And I think she meant to say the

1:40.0

allegations are erotic trash. But she adds that even if the allegations are true, it doesn't

1:45.8

matter. And this whole business of exposing sin in the church is unbiblical and it needs to stop.

1:51.5

Like now, she's extremely emphatic. And she explains that Mike Bickle's sin has been covered by the

1:57.6

blood of Jesus and his past sins are irrelevant. Well, my guest today

2:02.1

begged to differ. In fact, they argue that what needs to stop is the kind of spiritual abuse

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