"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. - Matthew 7:1-5 (ESV)
For the uninitiated, Robbie Dawkins is a Charismaniacal charlatan. My first exposure to him came through the staggeringly heretical Holy Ghost movie series. Dawkins would travel to various cities and play psychic parlor tricks to pretend that God was healing people. Never visiting emergency rooms mind you, instead finding people at midnight in public parks that suffer from non-descript pain that they then ask if it has receded and voila! It's a miracle! Except it isn't of course. So, since these movies, Dawkins appears to have carved out a little niche for himself and has a radio show that he hilariously calls "radical radio." The only radical thing of course is the level of his deception and lack of biblical understanding as he weighs in on the Mike Bickle fiasco at the link above. Throughout this video there are many rabbit holes of personal testimony and things that I will summarize to save us all time. Let us reason once more together beloved.
"We are called in the bible to restore those who have fallen into sin." - Robbie Dawkins
This sleight of hand is often used by Bickle backers. This verse about restoring is talking about restoring one's walk with Christ, not about restoring one to ministry. The foundational problem with Dawkins, Vallotton, Dr. Brown and all of those who have tried to save Bickle and IHOP is that every consideration is given to the wolf and none to the sheep. The false narrative Dawkins tries to set up here is nothing new. It is to pretend that we should be more concerned about Mike Bickle's restoration than we are about his many victims. Dawkins is of course, dead wrong.
"Satan ministers shame. We have to be careful as the church of Jesus Christ that we don't minister shame." - Robbie Dawkins
This video from Dawkins is peppered with threats and silly innuendos towards people who might dare say a correct word about the predator Bickle. The point he is trying to make here is that exposing the sins of a minister is shaming them and that shaming people forces them into hiding. The inference is that it is somehow the fault of other people that Mike Bickle preyed on young women. It is the same nonsensical argument that Vallotton tried to make recently. That if only we had a better way for minister-predators to confess and repent instead of "shaming" them or having them lose their job, maybe they wouldn't abuse so many others. Seriously. This premise is of course morally absurd and biblically offensive. On Vallotton, Dawkins actually said that he should not have apologized for his unbelievably tone-deaf nonsense that did not mention the victims one time. Instead, he agreed with Kris V by saying that people in the church should not take to social media making accusations about things they do not know anything about. Except how accurate is this blather with the benefit of hindsight in the Bickle situation? The leadership of IHOP we know were lying when the story first broke as they tried to cover it up and protect Bickle and the brand. We now know that the early leaks regarding Misty Edwards and April Rose were lies and disinformation spread by IHOP itself. We know that the only people who had it right, were the very people Dawkins seems to be saying should have shut up. It is the same garbage Dr. Brown, who Dawkins raves about, was trying to sell us. It was only through social media and people speaking the truth to the cover up lies that the other victims, who were minors when Bickle abused them, felt empowered to come forward. Dawkins wraps up this line of irrational reasoning by saying:
