Uh. Uh. From a former member of the Faith Builders International Ministry, the church that American Idol contestant Danny Gokey belongs to:

My experience with Faith Builders is the closest thing I hope to ever experience to a cult. The same brainwashing techniques that are used in cults are used at Faith Builders. I do not think that most of the members have bad intent, it just happens one way or another.

After I left, I was informed that the building in Beloit is literally falling apart, but money will not be raised to fix the roof, and the building in Milwaukee has to be paid for. For a ministry that was started 20 years ago to help an area that was ‘forsaken’ (as Jerry Pruitt had stated in his vision statement), only one person who started with the church remains in the ministries. With the almost 10,000 people who have at one time called this church home, only having one person being in attendance during the lifetime of the church speaks for itself.

The same person alleges that the pastor of the church, who appears to be practitioner of the prosperity gospel, is driving around town showing off his Escalade paid for by his congregation.
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