Don't know about the charisma but I have met him faced to faced, he sat near the back while someone else preached in a yearly event or for some reason we had to travel from Flagstaff to be at the mother church in Prescott.
After pastoring several churches in Foursquare, Wayman Mitchell was given the pastorate of the Prescott, Arizona Foursquare church in December 1970. The church had approximately 35 people attending. Mitchell picked up some ideas from other church groups on how to evangelize young people, including the "hippie" generation. One of these ideas included "Music Scenes," or "Coffee Houses." As Mitchell began to see a lot of young people coming into his church, he started up these music services on Friday and Saturday nights. Some of those who joined his church were talented musicians who even had professional experience related to playing in rock bands. This enabled Mitchell to see even more young people come into his church as "new converts."[citation needed]
The Foursquare leadership agreed to allow Mitchell to plant Foursquare churches within Mitchell's Foursquare District, the Southwest District. The Southwest District, at the time, was under the leadership of Dr. John Holland. Mitchell and Holland had no real friction over Mitchell's sending out of men, whom Mitchell had personally trained, to start churches.[citation needed]
Mitchell's plan of discipleship also included having the men who were sent out also disciple the male converts in their churches. Mitchell envisioned a geometric multiplication of churches that would "reach the world," and this was emphasized as being urgent as Jesus was coming back very, very soon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayman_Mitchell
I can vouch for the rock/rap concerts. The one in Tempe have ripped of 2pac songs but replaced with Christian lyrics.
I haven't seen my aunt & uncle in quite awhile but the only way they hang out with us is if they do their fair share of convincing us to come to church or the "when was the last time you were saved question" was often asked
In 1989, a father who accused the group of being a "mind-controlling cult", convinced social workers to prevent his 16-year-old daughter (who was in the custody of the state) from attending a Potter's House church. After several months, however, a Juvenile Court commissioner ruled that she could go unless her father or the county could show she was being harmed by the church. The girl's mother, Renee Collin, disagreed with the father, saying she had no objection to her daughter going to the church.[22]
In January 2002, Charisma News, a Christian news magazine dealing mainly with Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, reported a major exodus of some 160 churches from the Potter's House Movement in the United States.[23] The reason for the split, according to Charisma News, was "because of unhealthy control, and after (members) leave they are afraid to talk about their experiences." A former pastor interviewed in the Charisma News article, when asked about allegations of abuse, said "There are families who have not spoken for years, brothers who are pastors all the way to the Philippines who were separated by this group and had years of not even speaking, churches that have been deliberately split, children who don't talk to their parents."
In November 2010, Australia's Nine Network reported that Potter's House in Tasmania, Australia was performing a theater stage-show involving "scenes of suicide and drug use, and ended with a pastor telling the audience that 'the devil's children' needed to give their lives to God to be saved from Hell."[24] Ads for the show stated that the performance was MA-rated, however it did not state that it was run by Potter's House or had religious content. A pastor of the Potter's House, according to the report, stated that a press release warned audiences of "violence, mayhem, suicide, the occult and of course death."[24]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter%27s_House_Christian_Fellowship
I forgot how many churches they had worldwide for something started in Prescott, Arizona but I can vouch for the elaborate horror shows. That horror house in Prescott on Halloween scared the hell out of more than any other horror house & at-the-end, it was explained this is what hell was like. Religion was hard to buy into but I was convinced I didn't want to go to hell which led to a "just in case" thought into being fully converted but I realized either way I'd be pretending. The whole tongues thing was very weird to me.
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