Now the non-adultery emotional tie is being characterized as phone sex with a married woman...

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Facing Accusations About 2nd Alleged Victim, Michael Brown Admits 'Emotional' Relationship

The hits just keep on coming. Dr. Michael Brown's scandal just keeps metastasizing with each passing day as the victims come forward and reveal that Dr. Brown not only was wildly inappropriate with them 23 years ago but his story now trying to survive the scandal is potentially riddled with outright lies. Ironically, Julie Roys is reporting also that the Messianic Jewish ministry Tikkun Global released a statement on Brown that in part said they did not agree with "cancelling" or trial by social media as a substitute for biblical process where witnesses are heard and the accused are allowed to respond. I say ironic because it is statements like this that are so wrong in how the Charismaniacal machine rallies around the wolves to the detriment of the sheep. Positions such as Tikkun's are designed to sound reasonable but to cast shade upon the realities already known. We know for a fact that someone from Dr. Brown's camp tried to call Sarah "Erin" Monk to get her to stand down instead of accusing Dr. Brown. We know that a fundraising email was sent out implying that Monk was working in concert with the devil to destroy Brown's ministry. We found out yesterday that Ms. Monk has flat out stated that Brown is abjectly lying when he says that his behavior towards her was just because he saw her as a daughter, that this was somehow contained to public lapses in judgment and that the alleged meeting where he deeply apologized following Matthew 18 incorrectly, NEVER HAPPENED. So, stop clutching year pearls. Dr. Brown is not being cancelled by anything except what appears to be his lying to cover up his sins from many years ago. He is not being tried by social media. It is Dr. Brown that keeps leveraging his social media and actual media platforms to continue to try and distract, distort and dissuade people from finding out the truth. The biblical process is being followed here. The witnesses have spoken. Dr. Brown can decide to answer the accusations if he so chooses but instead, he is hiding behind the investigation that has been agreed to. So, when you hear these defenses, realize that it is always about trying to control the flow of information. Unfortunately for Brown, no sooner that he released an updated statement yesterday we also saw Erin identify herself and release her own statement revealing the lies she says are contained in Brown's statement. That brings us to today however, which saw the husband of the second victim, who passed away a few years ago, coming out to reveal even more damning accusations about Brown's behavior and the apparent falseness of his statements so far. The full reporting by the excellent Julie Roys is found in the above link, so let us reason once more together beloved through the highlights in this article.

"Just two hours before Brown posted the video, The Roys Report (TRR) reached out to him to request comment on allegations he had sexual conversations with a woman about 20 years ago, with whom he was "obsessed." After posting the video online, Brown responded that he'd have a statement to TRR by the evening after he conferred with his board. About an hour later, TRR emailed him about the video. Brown replied that the video would be his only statement, as per his board's instruction. The allegations came from the husband of a woman referred to in a previous TRR article on allegations against Brown. In the article, "Erin," Brown's alleged first victim, tells of finding a note in Brown's handwriting that described sexual conversations Brown was having with another woman." - Julie Roys

Now, remember that Brown has said multiple times that there was no adulterous behavior but here we have the implication that the second victim, which is the one that Sarah Monk found the confessional letter from Brown about, involved sexual conversations. I think it is important also to note that Dr. Brown could respond to any and all allegations. This "my board won't let me" defense is weak at best and designed to provide cover. If the truth is how Dr. Brown describes it, why would he care what his board has to say? Seems like this is just a convenient excuse. Sadly, the second victim has apparently passed away but her surviving husband was around 23 years ago when this all transpired. He is the "other spouse" Brown referenced. So, he is a direct witness to the events in discussion. Roys reports the identity of the victim and the husband remain protected but that they have verified their identities with other former FIRE school students and administrators. Let us now examine some of the specific allegations from the husband, who is being referred to as "Ray."

'Ray claimed Brown pursued an "inappropriate" relationship with his wife about 20 years ago in 2001 to 2002 when she was 41 and Brown was 46. Ray said that he and his wife considered Brown, a prominent leader for the Brownsville revival in the 1990s and founder of FIRE School of Ministry, to be their spiritual leader. "It is my view that he became infatuated and obsessed with her, learned over time some of her vulnerabilities, exploited that, and manipulated her into a place that she did not desire or intend," Ray said. "In short, a victim to a man who postured and prided himself to be one of our spiritual leaders." Ray had previously declined to comment about what transpired between his wife and Brown. However, Ray objected to Brown's characterization of Brown's relationship with his wife, which we reported in our previous article.

Brown reportedly told former FIRE staff Kris Bennett that Ray's wife had said something inappropriate to Brown, which Brown documented in the note Erin found. Ray said he interpreted this as blaming Ray's wife for what happened, but Ray says Brown deserves the blame. "I don't want him to throw my wife under the bus," Ray said. "She does not deserve that at all. . . . You can't just leave it there without some context. Especially if Mike controls the narrative, he's going to end up being a victim."' - Roys Report

Roys goes on to cite the opinion of Boz Tchividjian, an attorney specializing in sexual abuse cases, that this dynamic would be considered clergy sexual abuse because of the power differential between Brown and Ray's wife. It is certainly good that while the story of Sarah/Erin was between a man in his forties trying to groom a girl of 19, this one appears to be of two consenting adults. What gets lost in that though is the position Brown held at the time. He is in a position of spiritual authority, which is what Ray is trying to speak to. They viewed Brown not only as a spiritual leader but that Brown carried himself in that authority. The accusation here is very clear. Dr. Michael Brown, in a position of spiritual authority and while building a holiness-based ministry, exploited and manipulated the vulnerabilities of another man's wife in a sexual nature and then tried to play it off as if the woman was the one that initiated the inappropriate conduct. Ray, considered a secondary victim to this scandal, is protecting his wife's memory and recognizes that Dr. Brown's employed narratives are designed to cast himself as the victim or at the very least in the most positive light possible. This is something we have addressed as this has unfolded. The statement Dr. Brown put out and this updated video from yesterday are an attempt to sound as reasonable and contrite as possible but the victims keep contradicting what Brown is saying is very damning ways.

"Yesterday afternoon, Brown claimed in the video that he was repentant in 2002 for his emotional relationship with another woman. However, Ray said that's not true. He said Brown reluctantly admitted to the details when confronted with them, but "it was like pulling teeth." Yesterday afternoon, Brown also addressed what happened with his first alleged victim, Erin. "Please forgive me for my actions which caused you so much pain," he said in the video. "Had I more clearly understood the result of those actions in 2002 I would have responded very differently." Previously, Brown said his relationship with Erin was "nonsexual," lacked judgment, and resulted from him treating her like family. However, Erin told TRR Brown had a pattern of kissing her on the lips and slapping her butt. Yesterday, Erin came out publicly on social media as Sarah Erin Monk, her maiden name. She accused Brown of lying when he said earlier that he and his wife met with Monk years ago to follow the method of reconciliation outlined in Matthew 18 and to apologize to her. "Well, it NEVER happened," Monk wrote in her statement yesterday. "The idea that he apologized to me in this meeting is a complete fabrication." Monk said the only meeting she had with Brown and his wife was when she confronted him about finding the letter about Ray's wife, whom Monk said she now believes was a victim. "He has lied, and I lied for him for two decades, protecting him and his ministry," she wrote. In yesterday's statement, Brown said he didn't want to confirm or deny specific allegations but would let a third-party investigation find the truth." - Roys Report

Once again, we see the story Dr. Brown is putting out is considered the polar opposite from both victims, who never worked in concert with each other. This infers a pattern. Brown says he met with Monk in the spirit of Mattthew 18 (misuse of the verses) where he deeply apologized for his interactions with Monk. Sarah says that is completely untrue and that the only meeting they had was about Ray's wife, because Sarah had found a confessional letter Brown wrote regarding the sexual conversations he was having with the second woman. According to Sarah, Brown never apologized and the discussion was never about them. This kind of adds up then as to why she never felt the same closure that Brown claimed to have. As Brown has refused to answer these specific allegations, it may seem like a "he said she said," until you now factor in the same dynamic with Ray. Brown's story is that he was truly repentant but Ray says that just getting him to admit something happened was like pulling teeth. Beloved, these allegations are specific and clear. Brown appears to be hiding behind this third-party investigation. At a bare minimum he needs to either revise and clarify his statements and specifically state if both Ray and Sarah are somehow lying about these matters and THEN allow the third party to investigate. Ray then offered even more specifics:

'Ray said he and his wife met Brown through the Brownsville revival and were initially excited about Brown's revolutionary mindset. But Ray said in 2001 and 2002, Ray noticed his wife, who had young kids, spending more and more time in front of the computer reading the many emails Brown would send her. Brown would also often call their house, talk to Ray for a few minutes, then ask to talk to Ray's wife. Ray didn't understand why Brown was spending so much time engaging Ray's wife. "I had a growing discomfort with something, and she was growing quieter," Ray said. "The whole thing was, either something's not right"or, am I just going crazy?" Ray asked his wife what was going on, and she disclosed to Ray how Brown had turned their phone conversations inappropriate. "She said that she wasn't sure how it happened," Ray said. "She just wanted to be friends with everyone and did not desire anything else. She tried to explain how he crossed a line in their phone conversations, and somehow she followed. She wasn't sure why or how." Ray said his wife told him that Brown repeatedly requested she meet Brown alone, which she refused to do. She reportedly told Ray that Brown also instructed her to stop having sex with Ray, which she also refused. Ray said his wife also told him that one evening when both couples were in a car together on the way to a dinner"Brown driving, his wife Nancy in the seat beside him"Brown reached behind him and touched Ray's wife's leg.

Ray said his wife couldn't figure out how to stop the inappropriate interactions and return things to how they used to be. "She knew the truth would bring down a minister, and she did not want to be known as the woman who had a part in that," Ray said. So, Ray stepped in. In early 2002, Ray met with Brown and his wife, Nancy, to confront him, Ray said. "I used the term . . . 'Are you just having phone sex with my wife?'" Ray said. Ray said Brown's responses were confusing and not fully repentant, but that Brown admitted to the inappropriate dynamic. "He admitted to everything I confronted him with, but it was just very reluctantly," Ray said. "I kept having to pull him around. It was like pulling teeth a little bit. . . . It was admitted that he was doing something that had, or saying something, or perpetuating something, that had some sort of sexual flavor to it."' - Roys Report

I want to make sure we see this picture unraveling at the time. Brown befriends this family as a spiritual leader. He carries himself to them as such. His preaching at the time was all holiness-based. He preached about proper boundaries and how men should not be alone with women unless married. He built his current media and Christian empire on this. Yet at that same time, he finds himself attracted sexually to the man's wife. When he calls their home, he exchanges pleasantries with the husband but then asks to speak to the wife at length. We know from Sarah that Brown pushed the edge of the relationship, which is a stereotypical grooming strategy, to see how it could progress. Soon the conversations start turning to sexual matters. A married holiness minister, having some sort of sexual conversations with another, also married woman. This culminates in the meeting with Brown and Brown's wife Nancy, where Ray is forced to ask Dr. Brown if he is having phone sex with his wife. This is where it seemed like trying to pull teeth to even get an admission, which I think we can understand from a human standpoint, but Brown admitted the sexual dynamic. You can dress it down by calling it inappropriate or saying it had a sexual flavor, but essentially it sounds like how Ray challenged Brown. He was having phone sex with his wife.

Now, just a word here to make sure we keep our eye on the ball. Dr. Brown and Ray's wife were two consenting adults of similar age. She has sadly passed on, so no one really knows what this dynamic was and who played what role. It is wholly plausible that she was always trying to downplay her role to her own husband and again, as a human being I think we can understand that. None of that is relevant here because of the spiritual authority dynamic. If these were just two married folks in church fooling around, they would need to repent and ask for forgiveness from their spouses and it would be NOBODY'S business. The problem is that one of these two consenting adults was in a position of power and authority over the other. The problem is that same person at the time was an adamant preacher of holiness. The problem is that person went on for the next 23 years to call himself the voice of moral sanity and spiritual clarity. The problem today is in how that person is answering these charges. Look, if Dr. Brown just came out and said, yeah that was a time when I was almost falling away but I changed my ways and life and acknowledge that I handled it poorly and apologize profusely to Ray and Sarah and beg their forgiveness, then the issue would be as over as his ministry should be. I am sorry, but you do not get a mulligan on something like this. God has set out qualifications for leadership in His church and Dr. Brown disqualified himself 23 years ago. He could become a political commentator since that seems to be his focus these days anyway but how exactly do you take phone calls as the voice of moral anything and pretend you are the word of spiritual clarity, after this? How would that be even feasible anymore? But he did not take the road lined with truth. Instead, his folks sent out a fundraising email inferring Sarah was working with the devil while someone tried to call her to get her to stand down. Instead, he has apparently not been forthcoming and claims that he had meetings and followed biblical protocols and was so repentant but all of these assertions have been challenged as lies. He has avoided responding directly to the accusations by hiding behind his board and his agreement to a third-party investigation. Look beloved. This story reeks and believe me, I wish none of it were true because it just piles on to the black eye that Charismania continues to give to the cause of Jesus Christ. As a human being I feel badly for all parties, including Dr. Brown, who clearly had a struggle that could have ended his marriage. We are glad it did not by the way. We do not celebrate in the sufferings of others. There are also real victims here and Dr. Brown is not one of them. Even if in some bizarro world Sarah and Ray's wife were secretly luring Dr. Brown into some siren song web of sexual indiscretion, it still would fall upon Dr. Brown to resist and not fall into it as he was in the position of spiritual authority. Difficult? Absolutely in real time. Understandable why he would give in to these temptations? Absolutely. We are all human. In all likelihood however, Sarah was probably just a wide-eyed 19-year-old looking up to the spiritual giant of the recent Brownsville Faux-Revival who did not realize at her age that she was being groomed. In all likelihood, Ray's wife was also enamored on some level with the stature of who Dr. Brown was and did not stop the behaviors until it was too late. It matters not because the consistent fact here is that Dr. Brown, as the spiritual leader, should have been the one in control to say no, to not pursue, to not be the opposite of what he was preaching. I have to believe somewhere, he knows that.

There is very little that can be done now about what happened 23 years ago. What Brown can control is what he does now. He can lessen the pain for Sarah and for Ray by admitting the truth, stepping down, and sincerely asking for forgiveness. He has built a nice life and his marriage has survived. He can enjoy his golden years, maybe try to do some writing about the importance of true repentance. He can focus on his walk and repenting there. Then maybe Sarah and Ray can move on and heal. The body of Christ can too. The NAR unfortunately will survive. Steven Strang will have to find another gatekeeper for all of the false prophets and teachers he supports. I am sure he will. Shane Idleman seems to be jockeying for that role. So, I sincerely hope that Dr. Brown puts out no more videos unless they specifically address the accusations that have been credibly made against him and finally starts trying to protect the church instead of his career.

Reverend Anthony Wade - December 19, 2024

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.