I approached the church leaders meekly and humbly. But considering the way I was written off, I now ask will ask the hard questions, and do so publicly. The final step of biblical reconciliation is to bring the matter before the congregation. These are the questions that must be answered.

I brought this all out, because Thom said in our final meeting, he still receives calls from pastors or counselors who call and ask him for help on when someone claims they have been ritually abused. I believe he said he receives multiple per year. How does your name get out? You are becoming an authority on this subject. You sit upon a throne of judgement. Calvary Chapel Lebanon has also planted churches with pastors ordained by Thom. I even questioned Thom about this. I said Marc Weber is now a pastor, and he heard the same story. If he encounters someone claiming this, he may now think it’s true, or call you for counsel. Thom seemed to think this wasn’t a problem. To anyone who would ever ask Thom for advice on this, whoever hears Thom talk of counseling or spiritual warfare, you must be aware of all the facts. You must be aware that a story has been told and repeated in secret for a long time, and has hurt families, and it was drawn forth using dubious means.

• When I challenged your interpretation of scripture on authority, you accused me of heresy, and doubting the Bible. But you have received your teaching on authority and the “umbrella of protection” from Bill Gothard. So I have every right to question what you have learned. Be honest. Have you ever cited Bill Gothard as source for your interpretation of scripture? Do not teach scripture as if it is the only way to read it, when you are plagiarizing a very phrase of interpretation! Who is Bill Gothard
• You argue the truth of scripture, but what you really mean is the truth of your interpretation. You quote Neil Anderson in sermons on spiritual warfare, who is as controversial as Ed Smith. Your foundations of spiritual warfare have an unhealthy focus on alleged satanic powers. Who is Neil T Anderson
• Thom Keller, did you advertise yourself as a counselor? What is your degree what is your training? You have stated in a past Sunday morning sermon you even had a special room in your home designed for counseling people, including confronting demonic spirits. Under whose authority, and with what accountability did you carry out these exorcisms?
• You claim were not a pastor when you performed these counseling sessions. You were a successful businessman, and at the time the owner of a car dealership. You diagnosed a woman with Multiple Personality Disorder(Disassociative Identity Disorder). You even stated in one of our meetings you thought this woman could have up to 100 personalities. Despite the fact she had been to numerous licensed psychologists, no one else detected this. But you did. Where is the accountability for playing with peoples’ lives? And while a pastor, have you counseled anyone using this method, or using theophostic ideas? Were they adequately informed of the type of counseling, of the type memory work they might possibly be doing? Dan Vanvleet claims you did it to at least 1 other person, who just also happens to have recovered memory of abuse as a child, related to satanism. Yours or the client’s definition of the presence of “Jesus” in a memory does not constitute reality.
• If you were not a pastor, did you hold any position of authority in Cornerstone while you were conducting these counseling sessions? In the years 2003-2004, when I heard the client give her testimony, and was talking about surgery to remove the alleged items the cult put into her body, you were there in the church. You were acting as a pastor. You went from counseling this client, to being their pastor, preaching a doctrine of submission to authority. If you are there reinforcing it, and reinforcing that God honors submission, how can they even question their recovered memories?
• Just like Bob, when I hear disturbing claims, I don’t ignore them. I found nothing to support your claims. By whose authority do you continue to repeat this story for years and years? I asked you in our final meeting to never repeat this story. That this needs to end. But since you did not agree to this, the other side of the story must be told. You do not have a monopoly on truth. I have done something you have not. I saw the collateral damage of the story you tell. I met with her parents. Anytime you spread your SRA counseling advice to other pastors, when your own knowledge is based on hearsay, gossip, and unfounded accusations, you are planting the seeds of tragedy in other families. For two decades, as parents mourn their daughter, unaware of the scope of accusations you believe they are guilty of, you have made their alleged abuse the centerpiece of your knowledge of satanic cults. It doesn’t matter if you don’t mention their names. And I don’t trust that you don’t mention them. Either way it doesn’t make it right. When I interviewed them, the mother said in the past two years someone had asked her if she was the mother of the client, and walked away disgusted. She even said her son and grandson experienced ostracism. The parents have faced ostracism in the local community. It used to be worse, they said. The mother stated it has been extremely hard on them. They have learned to live with the pain. They only know you messed up her mind when she was staying with you. They don’t know you diagnosed her with DID.
• You want me to give you credit for the amount of work you did with the woman. You claim you had marathon prayer sessions together. And then you and Sue went to bed praying you wouldn’t wake up to find the client lying in a pool of blood(while she stayed at your house). Philhaven is a respected and well established institution. You scoffed when I suggested you should have taken her there. I do not commend you on your effort. I do not trust your judgment.
• I would have serious issues with anyone going to Thom for prayer or counseling related to past trauma, lest he invite the Holy Spirit in to heal their memories. If you teach or claim that the Holy Spirit or the presence of Jesus can reveal the truth in a person’s memory, you are practicing theophostics by another name. You claimed you haven’t opened a theophostics book in years. That is fine. But do you renounce the counseling method? Why did you not clearly state you stopped, as Bob related? Why defend a highly controversial counseling method, outdated and changed now even by its founder? What methods by Ed Smith do you still agree with? I believe, considering this entire letter, that public disclosure is required. If Calvary, or any church embraces what is today Transformational Prayer Ministry, Sozo, or any inner healing movement, that is their right to do so. But let it all be done publicly. Cite your sources where your beliefs come from.