Cal Pierce Recommends Removal of Minds

Comment by ‘Broken’ I wanted to flag up as it is very interesting.

“Here is my experience with Cal Pierce that might be helpful in understanding the nature of his schemes. Back in 2006 Cal purchased an old floral warehouse next door to his Healing Rooms in Spokane, WA and proceeded to renovate it into their new House of Prayer center.

The small non-denominational church I once attended was “chosen” to partner with the Healing Rooms and host Sundays in their new House of Prayer. They, of course, jumped at this because they never had their own building throughout their 20+ year history. I don’t blame them, who wouldn’t pass up the opportunity of such a grand undertaking as being apart of Cal Pierce’s ministry? (*cough*) Though I love them to death, I sorrow at how they have gradually been swept away into the vain grandeur of it all.

During a period of unemployment I volunteered as part of the renovation team that gradually transformed the old warehouse into a big hunk of posh. By the end of the construction they had a bookstore, a café, a huge carpeted and decked out sanctuary, and a huge expensive print of child prodigy Akiane’s ‘The Prince of Peace’ … not to mention a host of other gaudy decorations.

I wasn’t so much bothered by how posh it looked, but more along the lines of how much money they spent to fully renovate the warehouse into a “House of Prayer” (huge air conditioning/heating units alone were insanely expensive). In my mind, all that’s needed for a house of prayer is a group of saints and a roof over their heads. But instead this guise of “House of Prayer” was used to build a money making/American attracting conference center for Cal Pierce’s ambitious visions. All this money could have gone to the poor and needy throughout the world, actual Kingdom work! But people somehow think that this House of Prayer is Kingdom work.

While I don’t know the exact total, and wouldn’t say it if I knew, my former church was expected to dish up a large down payment to be the host church. My former church was rather poor throughout the years, but a few affluent families within the church kept it going. And somehow, they were able to dish out this down payment, and then some.

I thought this was ridiculous that people were paying deep out of their pockets for the overhead costs of Cal’s project – instead of for the needs of the church. It almost seemed like usury to expect a church to pay that much just to gain the status of being the host church in Cal’s House of Prayer. But I know that they weren’t the only ones, because somehow Cal was conjuring up the money for this immense project. And then I realized that the proceeds from Cal’s “Spiritual Hunger Conference” (hosted annually in Spokane) was a good source of revenue for this and other projects. They would rent the Spokane Conference Center, pack upwards of 8000+ people from all around the Pacific Northwest (all who paid a decent fee to get in), and then bring in big-name false prophets like Bill Johnson and the likes. The money they made from this conference was and is insane. The worst part was listening to people say each year, “this conference changed my life!” How? All they heard was heretical prosperity teachings combined with Bill Johnson’s heretical supernatural teachings.

In the last conference everyone had to listen to a guy banter about how God was going to (hadn’t yet) make him a millionaire through his amateur photography business. If spiritual hunger involves being desperate enough to pay to listen to false prophets and prosperity clowns, then something is terribly wrong.

Anyway, as my former church was gradually swept away into this, they changed. Throughout their history, as far as I know of, they never preached the prosperity gospel. But the moment they partnered with Cal, they somehow now needed to start conjuring up the funds and so they became converted to the prosperity gospel. Each time tithe is taken, they recite a thick prosperity gospel prayer. And my former pastor does this silly line by saying that we are only now capable of praying the first part of this prayer, and that we aren’t even ready to ascend into the thicker parts of the prayer. I guess this means we have to be phased into the prosperity mindset?

The thing is, I love my former church to death, and have nothing against them personally, but I really think they’ve been duped by Cal in a number of ways (and it’s impossible to tell them so). I recently went to one of their services, and they had a cameo appearance from Cal who preached a brief sermon on the “removal of our minds” (instead of the “renewal of our minds”). He literally claimed that renewal meant removal. Then he led everyone in a guided prayer of laying our hands on our head for the “removal of our minds”. I just about gagged right then and there. And then my former pastor got up and said there is no way he could top that. Yeah, no kidding! Cal wants us to remove our minds! Who can possible top that?

I don’t know what to think. There is so much more I could say about the gradual changes that have taken place in my former church, but I just can’t stand going there any longer and listening to the vanity and garbage of Cal’s ministry that has hijacked my former church. How many more good churches are falling to these wolves? How many people are removing their minds and just following along? Please Lord, would you please come now?”