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The Fantasy World of Mike Gendron

Mike Gendron says he is a former Catholic who has been saved by the Bible. He travels the United States whenever he can, in search of Catholics who will buy his books, tracts and his version of Scripture. He also publishes a lot of misinformation on the internet. His entire mission is to convince Catholics that they need to separate themselves from the Catholic Church if they want to end up in Heaven someday. There is a lot of dishonesty in Mike’s approach to his “ministry”, but the one consistent truth behind everything he does is this: Mike is allergic to facts. He sees things his way and his way only. If you present a simple fact to him that runs contrary to his personal interpretation, he stomps off like an angry child. I know because this is exactly how he behaved when I showed up at one of his “Bible Conferences” with one of my buddies. To see what I’m talking about, you can read here, I think you will find it very entertaining.

The events leading up to that article are kind of interesting as well, as are some things that occured after Mr. Gendron visited Nebraska on that occasion.

Several months prior to my meeting with Mr. Gendron, I wrote a letter to a local church, correcting the minister on numerous misunderstandings his particular church apparently held regarding the Catholic Church. The minister did not appreciate the information I provided him, but he did pass my letter off to a group of guys who had a solution in mind and that solution was that hey would hire Mike Gendron to come to Lincoln, Nebraska, to debate me. Although I wasn’t looking for a debate with anyone, I accepted their offer as long as they did all the work to set up and conduct the debate. After the discussion of some details, we agreed that the debate would take place, but the group of Christians from Lincoln did not want it to happen until nearly a year later. I thought that was odd, and when I pressed them on the purpose for the delay, the response was vague. I later discovered the reason when one of them accidentaly included me in a group email that I was not supposed to see. The email I received is shown below:

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To “Pastor Scott’s” credit, he apparently counseled the group from being dishonest in their efforts to help Mr. Gendron out. I did not let their scheming deter me from the debate, but I did reply to Mr. Ball and I gave him the opportunity to explain the activities of his group of “cunning Christians”. He simply said:

 I was the culprit and I won’t waste time trying to justify it.  My nose is back in place, :-))”

It was clear that he didn’t intent to send the email to me, but it was enjoyable to catch them in their ploy.

I decided to check out Mr. Gendron’s website a few weeks later, in order to see some of his recent claims about the Catholic Church. That is when I disovered that he was going to put on a little “Bible Conference” in Central City, Nebraska. I decided to attend some of his event in order to see how he behaved during his “conference”. That is how the Catholic Answers article came about.

After my visit with Mr. Gendron, I let a few weeks pass before I contacted the group of Christians in Lincoln, regarding the upcoming debate. At that point, Mr. Ball informed me that they had cancelled the debate. I had hoped that Mr. Gendron would not have gotten cold feet after our brief encounter in Central City, but alas, he must have decided he would be better off avoiding the debate.

It is evident that the pastor of the little church in Central City caught a significant amount of criticism for the way he handled the situation when I had Mr. Gendron backed into a corner at the end of the second night of his “Bible Conference”. A few weeks later, he posted his sermon, justifying his unchristian behavior toward me. You can listen to his explanation in this link. In a nutshell, the pastor explained that he had to treat me uncharitably in order to protect them from the information I was offering them. I’ve since reached out to Pastor Prettyman, but he has not accepted my offer to sit down for a private discussion.

A few months ago, I joined one of Mike’s facebook pages and at one point, he engaged me in a brief discussion after one of this blatantly false posts. When I provided Scripture passages and historical facts to show how incorrect he was, he blocked me. I then emailed him and offered to debate him at an upcoming event of his in northern Kansas.

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The point of all of this is to show several things about Mike Gendron:

  1. He is dishonest;
  2. His information is indefensible when his Scripture, Catechism and historical references are placed in context and he appears to realize this weekness;
  3. He relies heavily on people to protect him from situations in which his claims are about to be proven false;
  4. He does not actually practice what he preaches; He does not engage in honest dialogue regarding Scripture or the actual teachings of the Catholic Church.

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18 thoughts on “The Fantasy World of Mike Gendron

  1. Also does Mike Gendron engage in weird anti catholic theories like Alex Hillsop and Jack Chick

  2. My Baptist brother saw his video and gave it to me to view and right away I heard error on 1 billion people are Catholic being the majority out of 5 billion people in the world are going to hell. As far as him being an ex-Catholic, he seems to know nothing on Catholicism. He is Ignorant of being ignorant!
    I would not be surprised if God snuffs this guy out for all his Blasphemies and heresies. Evil is all I felt from him. It truly is a sin to watch or listen to him.
    Go to confession to get it off your soul if you have, otherwise the devil will have a foot hold on your soul.

        1. Yup, he’s a LIAR! I had never heard of this guy until today. I saw a video on YT which showed how many lies and errors he told about the Church, history, the Bible and Christianity in just ONE talk. Wow! He is truly a deceiver along with his wife Jane.

  3. I was a CATHOLIC for forty two years and this church is filled, absolutely filled with man made heresies…Been going to BIBLE STUDIES for the past fifteen years and the New Testament Church is quite, quite different than the Catholic Church, quite, quite different…

    1. Mike: What do you mean when you say you were Catholic? Tell me a little about how you lived the faith and studied the Bible for all those years and still came to the strange conclusion that the Catholic Church is “quite different”.

  4. @Bob, I’m with you. I’d love to hear Mike Feehan explain “What do you mean when you say you were Catholic?” ….. I converted to the Catholic Church at age 51 after spending all my life in the confusing world of Protestant Christianity. My background taught me to love Christ and the Bible which I am thankful of. But I’m now home this side of heaven in the Catholic Church. I have yet to hear ANY former Catholic clearly articulate the Catholic faith properly. So IMHO, they never truly understood the Catholic faith to begin with.

  5. CATHOLICS BELIEVE MAN MADE LIES, NONE ARE BACKED BY GODS WORD THE BIBLE…RARELY ANY EVER STUDY IT OR KNOW WHATS IN IT..CATHOLIC RELIGION WILL TAKE YOU TO HELL..I WAS A CATHOLIC ONCE BUT MY ETERNITY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND MY FAMILY..

    1. Larry, you should stop and think about what you claim. First, speaking in absolutes undermines your credibility. Even saying that Catholics “rarely” study or know what is in the Bible is ridiculous. Faithful Catholics are very familiar with the Gospels as well as key passages of Scripture and God’s plan for our salvation. The Catholic faith is deeply Scriptural even if a lot of Catholics don’t know the chapter and verse of any passages. The fact is, you have likely been duped by an eloquent non-Catholic, and you were not well catechized prior to that. It is unfortunate that you likely prohibit your family from learning about 2000 years of Christianity and require that they focus only on the last 500 or even 100 years since the ill-fated Protestant revolt. If your eternity, and the eternity of your family truly mattered to you, I would advise you to engage in some serious study and to at least read some books and articles by people like Scott Hahn, Jeff Cavins, Trent Horn, and other very solid thinkers and faithful Christians. Reading John Henry Newman wouldn’t hurt a bit.

  6. I have listened to Mike Gendron and what I hear him saying is he has been saved by “grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.” He also states that you cannot add or subtract from that. He doesn’t say that he was saved by the Bible. I just thought I would clarify that.

  7. Since there was no actual Bible for a long time at the start of Christianity, and it was compiled by the Catholic Church, then altered by the Protestants during the Reformation who threw out part of the Word of God that didn’t fit their narrative, how does Gendron make the claims he does. He’s using the Bible compiled by the Catholic Church? He ignores conflicting Biblical quotes such as St. Paul on marriage. Paul, a Priest, a Bishop, an Apostle, was not married. Sooo, how does Gendron square this with his claim that it is demonic for priests not to marry? John was not married. John the Baptist not married. Christ not married. Gendron is telling half-truths to those who have not read and meditated upon the Word of God.

  8. Taad,, why do the catholics have the book of catechisms? isnt the BIBLE the word of GOD enough…read revelations,,22 verses,,18-19 which says..FOR I TESTIFY OF EVERY MAN THAT HEARS THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK,,,{MEANING THE BIBLE} IF ANY MAN SHALL ADD TO THESE THINGS . GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT IS WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.. …..AND IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OF THE BOOK OF LIFE..{MENING HIS NAME WILL B STRUCK FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE.}AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY.AND FROM THE THINGS THAT IS WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.. SO THIS MEANS THE CATHOIIC HAS A MAN MADE WRIITEN BOOK,,NOT GODS WRITTEN WORD. THEY HAVE ADDED ..WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SPEAK OF PURGATORY? JESUS SPOKE OF HEVEN AND HELL NEVER ON PLACE TO GO TO GET PRAYED OUT, THAT IS SAYING JESUS DEATH ON TH CROSS WAS NOT ENOUGH,,WHERE DOES IT SAY IN THE BIBLE ABOUT SAYING THE ROSARY? AGAIN MAN MADE RULES THAT ISNT IN THE BIBLE..I COULD GO ON AND ON BUT IF IT ISNT IN TH BIBLE ITS NOT OF GOD AS HE MADE HIS WORD COMPLETE,,,NO OTHER BOOKS NEEDED FOR LIFES PATH TO REDEMPTION..SEEK AND U SHALL FIND ASK AND THE DOOR WILL B OPENED. TO THE TRUTH

    1. Why does the Catholic Church have the book of catechisms?

      Well, it isn’t “the book of catechisms” as in a book of the Bible. It is deeply rooted in Scripture, Church Councils, and the saints, but it isn’t intended to replace or add to Scripture. All catechisms are intended to instruct adherents regarding the practice of the faith. Your parents and grandparents likely used a catechism in their faith, though they probably didn’t call it a catechism if they were not Catholic. Protestants still use catechisms, but they call them other things, such as commentaries, Bible study guides, or even tracts, pamphlets, and books. In fact, if all you needed was the Bible, you should never listen to a preacher again. While you certainly should never listen to false preachers like Gendron because he is off his rocker and teaches extensive error, if what you say is true, you should never listen to (or read from) any honest, skilled, and knowledgeable preachers either. After all, they don’t just stand there and read the Bible to you, to they? But avoiding good teachers would be absurd. We should all learn more about Christ, and many good teachers are out there to help us. As long as they teach consistently with Scripture, they are very helpful, just as Barnabus, Titus, Timothy, Steven, and the other early Christians were doing great work to build the Kingdom of God.

      If you took the time to read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, you would learn a lot about Catholicism and even your own Christian faith since it has copious footnotes referring to Scripture as the basis for all the concepts in the Catechism. One of the clearest things you would learn is that you should not be focusing on what other people believe or don’t believe. You should focus on Jesus Christ. Mike Gendron doesn’t focus on Christ and because of that he is leading many people away from Christ and into a very strange cult which is simply anti-Catholic. Gendron’s cult is a mental and spiritual deception which only leads to confusion, ignorance, and unhappiness for his followers. Gendron is a charlatan who makes his money from posing as a preacher. Christianity is secondary, at best, to his primary focus, which is to make money off of anti-Catholicism.

      None of us really need the Catechism, not even Catholics. It can be very helpful and very edifying, but it is not essential for salvation. Yet it is very good and I am very happy to have read it from front to back. I am also happy to refer to it (and other books, including Scripture) when explaining the faith to people who are confused about Catholicism and the Catholic focus on the Holy Trinity through the sacraments, prayer, and sanctification. That being said, I am very encouraged to hear that you are a strict adherent to Scripture. However, you have some work to do on that because you allege that the Catholic Church has added to the Bible and that you don’t believe anything that isn’t written in the Bible. Well, where is it written that you can only believe in the explicit words of Scripture? That “Bible Alone” notion is flawed from the beginning since the Bible doesn’t even have a passage which says that you must only have the Bible, whereas Jesus does state that He is the way, the truth, and the life. This is why the Church is centered on Christ. Therefore, abandon Mike Gendron’s fantasy world of worshipping anti-Catholicism, or you may find yourself in a very bad condition for all of eternity. By the way, things such as Purgatory, the rosary, the Trinity, and Tradition are actually in the Bible, you just have to read it to see. So, maybe you are just a beginner and haven’t read the Bible enough to know what it actually contains.

  9. I saw a couple of Mike’s recent videos. Most of his presentations are the same from start to end, word for word, and even inflection has not changed over the years. Well until a couple of months ago when he started telling his audience that He and his uncle “Cocelebrated” (sic) Mass with Padre Pio when Mike was 13 or 14. In a second video he described himself as a good friend of Padre Pio who after he became a protestant discovered Padre Pio was a fraud. He also tells a story of how he saw Padre Pio at his window waving at souls Padre Pio released from heaven.
    After hearing this I wrote a series of emails to Mike who admitted that he does not speak Italian and while his uncle passed away he did not speak Italian either.
    While he could have been to San Giovanni the Monastery Padre Pio lived in, it would seem nothing short of a miracle that he and his uncle “Cocelebrated” with Padre Pio. Padre Pio died in 1968 before the Ordinary Form of the Mass was approved and Con-celebration became licit. From 1964-1968 Con-celebration was traditionally only permitted by newly ordained priests at their ordination Mass when they knelt at the foot of the altar and offered the Mass with the bishop who had just ordained him. The second occurrence was when a Bishop was consecrated and con-celebrated with the Bishop who consecrated him and his (usually two) co-consecrators, all at different altars near the primary altar. In 1964 until 1970 Con-Celebration was also permitted at Major events like General Chapters (formal meetings of Religious Orders with a large group of members of the order) So Padre Pio who until his death used the Pre-Vatican II Missal and followed the Rubrics of the Mass closely, would not have con-celebrated as it was forbidden in the Latin Rite.
    As to being a close friend of Padre Pio as he claims, it’s possible if his uncle met Padre Pio, he could have spoken Latin with him, but Mike not speaking Italian or Latin, and the schedule Padre Pio kept (he could take two to four hours to celebrate Mass because he was so engaged in the rite) and several up to seven or eight hours a day in the confessional hearing confessions in Latin or Italian (the two languages Padre Pio spoke) It seem unlikely Mike would be a close friend of Padre Pio as he claims. Gee if he is making up stories about Padre Pio his buddy and pal, I wonder if he could be making things up about other things.

    1. That is really interesting Robert. And not surprising. He’s starving for attention because it helps pay his bills. You did an excellent job of shining a light on his latest delusions.

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