Over the last few decades, many dark secrets have been pouring out of Christian communities around the world. Most of them focus on some form of misuse of trust or abuse at the hands of church leaders. For centuries religious leaders have “circled the wagons” in an attempt to preserve the money-making institutions they lead. The result has been a continual cycle of abuse and the disillusioned leaving the institutional church world in droves.

From 1982-1989, author Bob Scott founded and pastored the Kansas City Fellowship with his friend and then brother-in-law Mike Bickle. Over that same time though they began to have very different perspectives about what and how things were transpiring in their church community. The most significant issue was how Mike was using a group of unusually gifted men later labeled “The Kansas City Prophets” and developing a mythology around himself through what he called “The Prophetic History”. It would eventually become a source of deep pain for Bob as Mike would accuse him of being deceived, disloyal and wanting to lead the church astray.

The tragic developments with Mike Bickle and the International House of Prayer in the Fall of 2023 left hundreds of thousands hurt and confused. The spiritual equations they had been given suddenly did not add up and the disillusionment that set in was painful to watch. For Bob, it was like watching a movie rerun. He had spent decades trying to heal the disillusioned and brokenhearted from the demise of Dominion Christian School and KCF. Suddenly he was thrust back into service in a pseudo religious MASH hospital trying to help people find their spiritual equilibrium again.

This book is Bob’s Postmortem on what went wrong and why, in the hope that future ministry leaders will learn and grow from it. The stories and perspectives in the book will be eye opening for many and confirming for others. It will give you insight and understanding from behind-the-scenes stories that few know.