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sed a video in which she evaluates the legal implications of comments issued by leaders at bethel church redding california in response to very public allegations brought by mike winger ms johnson s analysis offers an important and unique lens for evaluating the dilemma now confronting bethel church as an institution and the leaders bill johnson kris vallotton and dan farrelly she argues that in addition to the risks exposed by the mike winger video there are new risks of legal liability caused by public statements made by these leaders in response to mike winger she says she would not be surprised to learn that victims are lawyering up i encourage you to see how she reasons from the evidence contained in these statements she brings prosecutorial expertise to bear on the situation bethel leaders have created for themselves when she expresses an opinion that stands apart from the law and the legal vulnerabilities facing bethel she is clear that she is offering an opinion but here as well she makes compelling arguments she concludes that spiritual failure on the scale exhibited by these men disqualifies them from continuing in leadership and she advises people within the bethel orbit who are not implicated in the actions of their leaders to leave for their own spiritual protection a major lesson of vanessa johnson s careful analysis is that recent public statements may later become evidence that places the parties in question in a legal bind these parties have confessed to having relevant knowledge of the facts and this prior knowledge makes them responsible the law does not recognize pastoral care and church discipline as sufficient remedies in situations of sexual abuse institutional responsibility is not cancelled by pleas of ignorance of the law or ambiguity of the circumstances seeking discernment and other devices of pastoral framing can be interpreted as delay that is not a good thing there are two things about this that i need to emphasize first whether bethel church is faced with a legal emergency will depend on whether victims become plaintiffs second what transpires in that event will not be influenced by anger expressed in social media by bethel church defenders who believe their leaders are innocent of wrongdoing calling critics of bethel culture liars will have no effect on legal proceedings that might emerge in addition if i m not mistaken if an institution like a church responds to sexual abuse allegations primarily as either a reputational problem or a pastoral problem that institution may be risking civil liability it doesn t matter whether the leadership thinks its response is compassionate and all cheering aside if a congregation believes the narrative that compassion prevailed in the church s handling of a matter civil liability is not mitigated some may suspect that vanessa johnson is simply an activist lawyer with an axe to grind or that she has an inordinate sympathy for victims but that is not the case here she is thoroughly familiar with prosecutorial practice and her statements about the legal risks seem to comport with california statutes and it should be noticed that ms johnson speaks with christian concern that is quite conspicuous in her remarks my initial dip into california case law reflects much of what she is saying in her analysis as i understand it california courts deem the specific organizational or governmental structure of a particular church as irrelevant to duty of care so as far as california case law is concerned it makes no difference that a church is governed by an apostle and a prophet the presumed authority of an apostle or a prophet would not absolve the institution of legal liability this is not due to religious prejudice the theology of the institution is not under attack it is simply a question of whether leaders had relevant knowledge and whether they acted responsibly on the knowledge that they had of course a legitimate apostle and a legitimate prophet could be expected to have knowledge that issues in responsible action for the likes of bill johnson and kris vallotton the presumed apostle and prophet respectively at bethel church discernment is not generally a lengthy process rather it is a spontaneous awakening brought about by encounter with the spirit even kris vallotton in his volte face on monday january 19 2026 spoke of an encounter with the spirit that caused a reversal in the judgment he had expressed in a bethel church service only the day before a fact he apparently did not share with the congregation until the next sunday so their own conception of the mechanism of revelation needed for a ministry of protective covering for their congregation incriminates them quite apart from what case law might imply these men teach a theology that entails that in their role as apostle and prophet and their attendant responsibility to provide a spiritual covering for the church they would have had the requisite knowledge of the facts and they would have known what action would be most responsible their theology condemns them this point has no legal significance but it does mean as we ve argued repeatedly in various ways over the years that they are not what they pretend to be bill johnson is not an apostle kris vallotton is not a prophet since the entire culture they have created at bethel church redding depends on that illusion the culture is a shambles it is central to the culture of bethel church what kris vallotton has been calling our movement in his latest speeches to the congregation to revel in what they call reckless christianity we have documented the dangerous effects of this folly in our book reckless christianity the destructive new teachings and practices of bill johnson bethel church and the global movement of apostles and prophets many have testified to this and escaped the delusory chains of a false prophetic narrative finally because of sexual scandal linked to prophetic malfeasance many more are today discovering that bethel has sewn the wind and is now reaping the whirlwind related posts from apostolic covering to corrupt cover up shawn bolz prophet of the new apostolic reformation share this with others print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading filed under other from apostolic covering to corrupt coverup swapping spiritual protection for systemic deceit at bethel church redding january 29 2026 leave a comment in their official response to recent allegations by mike winger bethel church leaders have admitted to being too merciful toward shawn bolz but they deny that they were ever involved in a deliberate coverup so is mike winger on the wrong track or does cover up culture go even deeper than mike alleges holly pivec and i authors of counterfeit kingdom and reckless christianity address these questions about the bethel church movement in a new podcast that dropped today for mike winger s 6 hour expose that launched a major controversy and elicited a response from bill johnson and kris vallotton click here here are two other important discussions of the bethel church response to mike winger s compelling podcast alisa childers repentance or damage control testing bethel against the scripture click here john cooper bethel controversy erupts click here related posts by doug geivett is bethel church redding faced with a legal emergency shawn bolz prophet of the new apostolic reformation share this with others print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading filed under other tagged with alisa childers bethel church bill johnson john cooper kevin vallotton mike winger new apostolic reformation shawn bolz shawn bolz prophet of the new apostolic reformation part 1 a peculiar twist in the data mining controversy january 30 2025 leave a comment perhaps you ve heard of the new apostolic reformation this movement promotes the view that certain divinely anointed individuals exercise significant authority for the church in their capacity as apostles and prophets for today shawn bolz is a nar prophet with close ties to bethel church redding california including the apostle bill johnson and the prophet kris vallotton for quite some time now shawn bolz has been accused of data mining when prophesying about individuals in attendance at his various public events in 2017 stewart james felker explained in detail how he came to this conclusion about bolz felker gave a step by step analysis of a single incident during one of bolz s prophecy rallies in our book counterfeit kingdom holly pivec and i discuss a different case in bolz s prophetic career dating back to 2019 thoughtful observers have been aware of this data mining dependency for several years recently further information has come forward that makes it even more difficult to deny that this is bolz s modus operandi as a prophet for this generation and rumor has it that bethel church leaders have cut ties with bolz now that more details have come to light bethel s reaction is indeed further evidence that the allegations are true not because nar prophets at bethel are keen to expose error in order to protect the flock but because of blowback against bethel s own prophetic pretenses blowback that must be managed with aggressive action wolves in sheep s clothing are sometimes sacrificed by fellow wolves when their own neck is on the line data mining involves the extraction of useful information from large sets of data often using internet technology by leveraging this technology shawn bolz can access a wealth of information about individuals that provides context and validation for his prophecies but exposure and strained relations with his prophetic pals at bethel has led to some scurrying behind the scenes that is a story in itself but one outcome is an emendation made to the bolz ministries website dated january 17 2025 the new statement of prophetic integrity outlines guidelines that bolz and associates plan to use in all future prophesying without mentioning data mining explicitly shawn bolz seems to have changed his mind about further dependence on this prophetic technique but get this the new guidelines are in effect prophecies that shawn bolz has made recently about how he and his affiliates will prophesy in the future we ll see if this prophecy comes true now you may think that calling bolz s new prophesying policy a prophecy itself is just sarcasm on my part but it really is not he says he will not be issuing prophecies that reveal certain types of personal information about individuals but how can he know that unless he knows that god will not call upon him or anyone on his team to reveal such things and wouldn t advance knowledge of that sort have to be prophetic bolz purports to know in advance what god will have him prophesy who told him that if it wasn t god so bolz makes a prophecy about what he will and will not be revealing in future prophecies of course there is another possibility that must be considered if shawn bolz has been data mining for the content of his prophecies maybe he is data mining now for the criteria to be used in his new policy regarding all future prophecies if bolz has formed the intention never to resort to prophesy certain things he can simply data mine his own brain to ground his prediction and issue new and improved prophesying guidelines for future prophesying old habits die hard but i think bolz who s in the revelation business revealed a deep truth about himself without intending to apparently he didn t think people would notice that shawn bolz had decided what god could and could not reveal through him if god wanted to keep using him as a prophet most people especially if they ve read the book of jonah know that bolz has it backwards god decides who the audience is and god decides what the message is so the new prophesying policy now available for inspection lets the cat out of the bag bolz is the source of his new revelations and if you ve watched bolz perform you realize this kind of makes sense his prophetic utterances have the same texture as all those mentalism shows you see where the showman acts like he s getting a vibe about someone in little pieces starting with vague generalities and then groping from there toward something more specific have you ever wondered why the hebrew prophets didn t do that it has so much more entertainment value for all the amazing similarities between professional mentalists when they perform and shawn bolz when he prophesies about individuals in his audience there are two main differences between them first mentalist entertainers aren t speaking for god they don t claim to speak for god they don t launch into soul stirring messages about how god plans to use specific members in their audiences they just wow the audience with their amazing knowledge of specific details about strangers in the auditorium bolz seems to have decided that he can improve on what the typical mentalist does by making it a religious exercise that has the stamp of god s authority it s a bold idea but easy to execute all he has to do is claim that god is speaking through him with bolz you can get all the same entertainment value as you might with any experienced mentalist but drive home after the show believing that god has spoken with bolz you get wow plus worship that sounds like a difference that could catapult bolz into the stratosphere way above most mentalists in demand today and it might be if it weren t for the second difference the second difference between bolz and professional entertainers in the mentalism racket mitigates the value of what bolz does in comparison with the best mentalists who don t even have god helping them the best mentalists on tv the most impressive performers on the vegas strip really are convincing a good mentalist will have you wondering how in the world does he do that and even though you know the mentalist does not have a hotline to heaven you find it hard to think that it s just clever trickery this is because the pro performer is so smooth and so well spoken that you couldn t figure out what the trick is if your life depended on it with bolz on the other hand the performance is very amateur in comparison his use of his smart phone is not cleverly integrated into his performance as a prop that enhances his persuasiveness rather the device he clutches is wielded like an embarrassing crutch and in his exec...