03/28/2026
A new video is now live: Pastor Larry Neville’s 1990 Letter to Wayman Mitchell | Letters to the Church, Ep. 4.1
This episode begins a new series called Letters to the Church.
In this first installment, I examine a letter Larry Neville sent in October 1990 to Wayman Mitchell and the elders of Christian Fellowship Ministries. Neville was not a distant critic looking back years later. He was a pastor with standing in the movement, and his letter records, in real time, serious concerns about how the system was functioning.
The issues he raises are enforced separation from other pastors, attacks on character, pressure on relationships, structural rigidity, and a model of authority that, in his view, had begun to protect the institution at the expense of workers, conscience, and calling.
That is what makes this document important. It does not settle every question by itself, but it does show that serious concerns about control, discipline, and structure were being raised from within, at the time, by someone who had helped build the work.
This is especially relevant for those still inside The Potter’s House, or anyone who assumes these criticisms were only invented later by disgruntled ex-members. This letter shows otherwise.
As with the other videos, the issue is not whether people can dismiss the messenger. The issue is whether they are willing to deal with the document itself, what it says, what it objects to, and why those objections matter.
You can watch the video here:
This episode begins a new series on this channel, Letters to the Church.In Ep. 4.1, I examine Pastor Larry Neville’s October 1990 letter to Pastor Wayman Mit...