Fact-checking: IHOP Article

Sources listed in this piece:

1. Ruth Abadir (explicit)
2. Brad Christerson (explicit)
3. "Those outside the movement" (implicit)
4. IHOP (implicit)
5. Mike Bickle (explicit)
6. Young Korean woman (explicit)
7. Misty Edwards (explicit)
8. Bob Jones (explicit)
9. Kansas City Prophets (implicit)
10. C. Peter Wagner (explicit)
11. "Watchdog groups that track the Christian right" (implicit)
12. Peter Montgomery (explicit)
13. Lou Engle (explicit)
14. Brittany Natasha Hyre (explicit)

Some Inferences:

1. "Young people have flocked here from as far away as Britain and South Korea, convinced that their prayers, joined in a never-ceasing stream, can push back evil forces that threaten to overwhelm society."
2. "In the city, IHOP has a higher profile"
3. "The heart of the enterprise is a large, windowless sanctuary inside the old supermarket, where robotic cameras — operated from an adjacent production trailer — are in constant motion, broadcasting the worship on the church website and on television channels around the world."
4. "There is a special esprit de corps among those assigned to the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. 'night watch.'"
5. "The New Apostolic Reformation is not an organization so much as a loose movement of independent, nondenominational evangelists."
6. "A key issue for IHOP is how it sees the end of the world."
7. "It is perhaps typical that, while Wagner considers Bickle to be part of this movement, Bickle demurs."
8. "'What if they succeed?' he added. 'What would that mean for equality for gay people? What would that mean for the rights of women, and reproductive rights?'" (implies that this a question everyone should ask of IHOP)

This sentence of the article was troubling:

"Its theology says 'that God intends that a certain kind of right-believing Christian should exercise dominion over every aspect of society,' said Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow with People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy organization."

Why is a prominent liberal stating IHOP's theology? Shouldn't the actual, written theology have been the source? This man, fearful and wary of the motives of Christians, may have twisted the theology out of proportion in this statement.