FALSE PROPHET

Sean Feucht

Activist and
Worship Leader

A relative unknown outside of conservative Christian circles before 2020, John Christopher “Sean” Feucht – a worship leader from Bethel megachurch in California – has pivoted from his recent failed congressional campaign to cornering the market as the unofficial soundtrack of the MAGA movement. 

Feucht is a prodigious organizer for the far-right’s extremist agenda. He organized and headlined a tour of protest concerts called “Let us Worship” in cities that saw both COVID-19 restrictions and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 – including in Minneapolis, where he held a “worship concert” alongside members of the Proud Boys and other white supremacist groups in George Floyd Square.

The “finale” concert of the tour took place on the Washington Mall and was billed as both a protest against restrictions on churches and a celebration of the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

In 2021, Feucht held a 9/11 Memorial event in Washington D.C. called “Pray for America. Pray for President Trump.” Feucht is a regular presence on the ReAwaken America Tour with fellow False Prophet Michael Flynn, visiting churches and other venues across the country to spread election denial and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories in Jesus’s name.

Feucht’s new row house on Capitol Hill — dubbed Camp Elah — is being positioned as a “hive of 24/7 prayer, mobilization, and ministry” to engage with friendly lawmakers and other supporters. Feucht is already a familiar face to many of Congress’ most extreme lawmakers, having led a worship service alongside two fellow False Prophets, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, on the steps of the Supreme Court this summer.

Feucht’s Christian Nationalist Rhetoric

  • Has used militia-style private security forces at his events, including at least one member of the Proud Boys

  • Founded “Hold the Line,” a self-described “political activist movement… to engage with the church and with millennials in a way that charges them to become more politically active” and oppose “the progressive agenda being forced upon America.”

  • One of roughly 50 worship leaders invited to the Oval Office to pray for Donald Trump before his first impeachment vote. “We just laid our hands on him and prayed for him. It was like a real intense, hardcore prayer. It was so wild,” Feucht told Fox News after the meeting. “I could not believe he invited us in. That he carved out time to meet with us.”

  • In a video announcing his “Pray for America. Pray for President Trump” event, Feucht called on people to “rise up” because “the levels of corruption are absolutely unprecedented.” The corruption he was referring to included “the sexualization of our children” and the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.  

  • Feucht recently penned an open letter to church leaders encouraging them to “unfriend the world” and speak up about the “battle of standing for Biblical Truth”: “People complain that Biblical truth should not spill over into political matters. I disagree…The battlefield of the heart and soul of America should be waged from our pulpits, in our communities, and in our daily lives, not the swamp of Washington D.C. It is time to retake the high-ground, and start dictating the terms of the fight!”

  • While performing at fellow False Prophet Doug Mastriano’s primary victory party in Pennsylvania, Feucht said: “If you look throughout Scripture, you’ll see many times where God will call the worshipers to go ahead of the army. And I feel like even tonight what we’re doing, worship goes ahead and prepares the way.”

  • Feucht has been called an “outright grifter” who “Scored Millions From His Trump-Loving Flock.” He constantly solicits donations and has parched a property valued at nearly $2 million, even though his organization reported zero dollars in contributions in recent tax filings. 

  • In September 2022, Feucht complained that more pastors hadn’t supported his anti-mask and anti-Black Lives Matter events even though politicians had -- a Christian nationalist suggestion that Christians should take theological direction from politicians: “We’re doing these conferences and these events and these sermons, and here in a time when we step out, I found that oftentimes politicians on the right had my back more than a lot pastors did. It really exposed a lot, fractured some relationships.”

Feucht’s Christian Nationalist Policy Positions

  • On abortion, Feucht tweeted: “Abortion is the sacrifice of babies on the altar of convenience.  It grieves God.  Every baby is uniquely created and loved by God.  If you support abortion the love of the Father is not in you.”

  • Feucht views LGBTQ+ individuals as sick, and claims his protest concerts provide divine conversion therapy: “We’re one of the only ministries I know where every altar call we say, ‘Hey if you’re battling with same-sex attraction, if you’re in the middle of transition therapy, God wants to heal you.’”

  • Referred to Black Lives Matter as a “dark movement with hidden agendas” and “shady.”