Doyle Davidson – Apostle or Liar Part 2


Doyle lies about his involvement with Dena Schlosser

When the news first broke I didn’t make the connection. It was a local story but was sure to make national news. A mother had once again murdered her infant child. This time it had happened in Plano Texas only a few miles from where we live. A woman named Dena Schlosser had cut the arms off of her 8 month old baby girl causing her to bleed to death. It wasn’t until several days later, when I saw the woman’s picture in the newspaper that it dawned on me who this woman was.

I recognized the photo as that of a woman who I had seen during the time I was attending Water of Life Church in Plano Texas. I remembered Schlosser because she seemed always to be there, sometimes with her husband and sometimes only with her two young daughters but it seemed that she was at the church every time the doors were opened. At least she was there every time I was there and that was at least three times per week during the years 2001 – 2003.

The connection was confirmed as I read the accompanying article. Schlosser it said was a long time member of Water of Life Church. Family members felt her obsession with Pastor Doyle Davidson and his teachings may have had something to do with her actions. I couldn’t say I was totally surprised. The woman had always struck me as a bit odd, someone who obviously had ‘issues’ she was dealing with. What did surprise me however was the quote from Davidson in which he claimed that he didn’t know her and that she may have been an occasional visitor to his church. Anyone who had attended that church in recent years had to know that was a lie. The great apostle and prophet it seems, was trying to distance him self from this troubled woman who had hung on his every word for years.

Rev 21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.  

When I first became aware of Doyle Davidson and his ministry I found him to be a refreshing change of pace from the prosperity/faith camp of which I had been a part. For one thing Davidson did an hour long television show 5 times per week and never once asked for money. Secondly he wasn’t afraid to take on the big prosperity preachers including Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland, even denouncing them by name.

The main attraction for me however was that Davidson was teaching the Bible in a way that was less adulterated with the doctrines of man than any preacher I had ever heard. After coming out of the faith/prosperity camp I had spent the previous five years in God’s word learning it for myself. I had asked the Lord himself to be my teacher. During this time I began to see how much of what has been taught in the church has been a mixture of truth and error. What I was hearing from Davidson was much of what the Holy Spirit was already showing me to be true.

When I first began to attend Water of Life it was Doyle’s frequent practice to share the pulpit with his son in law Terry Mai and nephew Ralph Edge. Sometimes others would speak but it was primarily these three. During a typical service or television broadcast taping each would take a fifteen or twenty minute segment. They claimed (and I have no reason to doubt this claim) that they rarely talked with each other before taking the stage yet their messages always seemed to flow together. It was clear that the Holy Spirit was directing the teaching. 

All that began to change sometime in 2003. After the death of Davidson’s wife Patti, Doyle began to spend less time teaching from scripture and more time talking about himself. He spoke over and over of how God had required him to forsake his successful veterinary practice and to preach the gospel. At the same time he became more abusive toward the congregation, telling them in harsh tones that they were not believing the gospel and that they were in rebellion to God. Finally he told every one that they should throw away all his previous tapes and books. He removed all his written teachings from his website. Eventually the lack of solid expository preaching was causing me to question why I was still attending. By November of 2003 I stopped attending all together.

Davidson still tells his congregation that they do not believe anything. He has told them that their prosperity is due to his faith. He tells them over and over that all who have left the church were and are in rebellion to God. When Patti died he told everyone that she went to heaven but only because he had the faith to get her there. Does this man sound like a true apostle making disciples unto Christ?

Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.  

In many ways Doyle Davidson is correct. Those who remain in his flock today are unbelievers. The reason for this is that Doyle has planted that unbelief in them for years. He is getting the exact harvest that he has planted. No one can sit and listen to words like this over and over without being affected by them.

Davidson has told people for years that God promised him a ministry just like Jesus had. But that does not seem to be the case when it comes to casting out devils.

Mark 1:23-24 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 

Here we see when this man came near to Jesus his mere presence caused the unclean spirit to cry out in torment. If Doyle Davidson had a ministry just like Jesus one might expect the same phenomena to occur in his presence. On the contrary it seems the devils that tormented Dena Schlosser were quite comfortable around Doyle. 

The day Dena Schlosser murdered her baby was a Monday. It was November 22, 2004. The previous day John and Dena Schlosser had attended services at Water of Life Church in Plano as had been their habit for several years. That Sunday the Schlosser’s had once again listened to Doyle rail against the Plano Police department over his public intoxication arrest. He again claimed that he had not been intoxicated, that it had all been a set up and that everyone was lying except him. After the service Dena told her husband that she wanted to go to the Plano Police Department and demand they drop the charges against Doyle. John Schlosser told her to forget the whole thing and let Doyle handle it.

After arguing in the parking lot, John Schlosser took his wife back inside the church and both of them spoke directly to Davidson who advised her to listen to her husband and leave the matter alone. This was not the first time Doyle Davidson had spoken to John and Dena Schlosser. Davidson had even spoken to Dena’s mother in 2003 when she called him concerned about Dena’s increasingly bizarre behavior.

On the morning of November 22, 2004 after murdering her baby, Dena answered the phone to find her husband on the other end. She told him that she had killed little Maggie. John didn’t really believe her but thought he should have someone go and check on her. The person he called was Doyle Davidson.

In a church that never had more than around 200 people in attendance at any given time, Doyle Davidson knew full well who Dena Schlosser was. He knew she was a regular attendee. He spoke with her or her husband on several occasions. He spoke directly to her the day before she murdered her child. He was the first person John Schlosser called after learning that his wife may have committed that horrible act. Yet Doyle Davidson’s statements to the media were that he did not know Dena Schlosser. Even while on the witness stand during Schlosser’s murder trial Davidson's sworn testimony was that he ‘barely knew’ Dena Schlosser.

Doyle Davidson lied about not knowing Dena Schlosser.

‘Apostle’ Doyle Davidson loves to quote the first portion of 1 Timothy 1:9.

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man…….  

Proclaiming to all, that he is a righteous man, he insists that God’s moral law does not apply to him. What he fails to quote however is the remainder of that scripture.

……but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;  

The law is made for liars and that is exactly what Doyle Davidson has shown him self to be. No one can be a righteous man and a liar at the same time.

1John 3:7-8  Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil……… 

Any man who is a liar is under the law and is bound for hell except he repent. God provides no exception for Doyle Davidson.

Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

If you are still listening to Doyle Davidson I suggest you repent and listen instead to what the scripture says. By standing with this false prophet you become a partaker of his evil deeds. By supporting him you become his enabler. Turn back to God and seek his mercy with all your heart. Perhaps God will grant you repentance and put a stop to the judgment which has already begun to fall upon you just as it has befallen him.

 
Doyle Davidson - Apostle or Liar - Part 1
Doyle Davidson - Apostle or Liar - Part 2
Doyle Davidson - Apostle or Liar - Part 3
Doyle Davidson - Apostle or Liar - Part 4

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