This article will examine NAR evangelist Dan Bohi’s ministry, Becoming Love Ministries. Anyone who feels called into formal ministry must choose a vehicle by which to do it. You can involve yourself in the ministries of your local church, start an apologetics blog, host a small group, or launch an independent ministry. In this case, Bohi founded Becoming Love Ministries.
In the prior article about Bohi, I detailed the serious red flags related to his theology on the NAR, faith healings, and impartations. In this article, I will detail the organizational red flags of Becoming Love Ministries. When there is smoke, there is inevitably fire; and a fire is burning in the pockets of Becoming Love Ministries.
Becoming Love Ministries
I began by reviewing Becoming Love Ministries’ website. I would generally describe the “Statement of Faith” as being consistent with orthodox Christianity. It appears to be thoughtfully written and theologically sound. For this, I applaud Bohi. Every Christian ministry needs to have a Biblically orthodox statement of faith. In this regard, Becoming Love Ministries has done well. However, does Bohi and his ministry operate in a Biblically consistent way?
Is Becoming Love Ministries a good steward of its donations? Upon review of the publicly available finances, it became clear that there were red flags. Charity Navigator gave Becoming Love Ministries a failing score on their “Finance & Accountability” section. ProPublica publishes publicly available tax information for nonprofits. 2019 was the last recorded year with accessible tax documentation. Dan Bohi, the founder of Becoming Love Ministries, was compensated $259,589. To put it in perspective, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated the median annual wage for clergy in 2021 was $49,720. Bohi is earning $209,869 more than the median annual wage for clergy. In 2021, the U.S. median annual wage was $45,760. In 2022, the median U.S. household income is $61,937. The average salary in 2021 for a doctor is $229,311. Statistically, Bohi easily falls within the top 10 percent of income earners. Lastly, so I can make a strict apples-to-apples comparison, the average salary for a founder of a nonprofit is $147,241, which is $112,348 less than Bohi’s salary.
Perceptions are very important in ministry. Christian clergy (i.e. staff pastors) commonly accompanies a lower salary. Personally, I feel pastors are underpaid for their work due to the eternal importance of what they do, but that is the nature of being clergy. They’ve committed themselves to God because it’s a calling. So, there is no dispute about whether pastors should be adequately compensated for feeding the souls of their flock with the word of God. My concern about Bohi’s salary is that his compensation is considerably more than 90% of the U.S. population. Again, perceptions are important in ministry. When every available economic metric suggests that Bohi is earning roughly five times the median annual income of an average clergyman, it’s not unreasonable to inquire about why Bohi accepted such an excessively high salary.
Conclusion
Referring back to my introduction, Bohi will have a higher degree of accountability due to his tenure in the faith and the position he holds. Questions about finances will arise because his compensation is dramatically disproportionate to others performing the same or similar tasks.
My prayer is that Bohi is placing his wealth in God’s hands for good use. In light of that prayer, nobody should ignore that his finances are a red flag due to economic disparities. His excessively high salary dwarfs the average clergyman’s salary by a magnitude of five. Is this a responsible stewardship of the donations Becoming Love Ministries receives? If I was on the board of Becoming Love Ministries, I would vehemently oppose this level of compensation in lieu of a prudent level of compensation commensurate with his occupation. This demonstration of fiscal irresponsibility is a red flag, especially when accompanied by many false teachings.
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Excellent series on what I’m sure are well intended individuals – Bohi and McCorkle. You rightly call them to accountability of better theology and rightly call pastors them to fulfill their responsibility as a shepherd and not continue hosting until they change their teachings.
One aspect of Bohi/McCorkle teaching that you haven’t addressed yet and is a key tenet of NAR adherents: Kingdom Now/Dominion Theology.
A social media post by McCorkle in October 2021 said this:(I’m sharing excerpts, but have the entire context if I could share pictures…)
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“Authoritative Prayer
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Among other things, prayer is a method God uses to bring kindgom mandates into full operation in the earthly realm.
This idea was taught by Jesus in Matthew 16:19, “I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” Did you notice the phrase “shall have been”? It’s called a future perfect passive, and the NASB correctly translates this verse.
We don’t bind or loose something on earth and then expect heaven to jump to our demands. Rather, heaven has already established kingdom demands and it’s now our responsibility to implement those…
Once we learn God’s assignment for our particular area, then our prayers become a declaration of heaven’s agenda for our city, our community, our family, etc. With kingdom authority, we implement God’s decisions through binding and loosing, and we root out and overcome the powers of hell as Jesus builds his church…
Find out what He has bound or loosed for your territory. And may your prayers become authoritative declarations.”
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This is a window into the view of the NAR/Dominionist/Kingdom Now teachers that expand the context of this and other passages to include current kingdom authority/dominion/power that goes beyond what most faithful students/teachers of the text teach.
Thank you for the comment.
I am very familiar with the Kingdom Now/Dominion Theology. In this series of articles, I did not include this topic because I wanted to touch on the facets of their theology that had the greatest influence over my home church. It’s hard to touch on everything all at once. However, I suspect that I’ll eventually write an article on this topic.
God bless!
I had to literally cancel my debit card because I gave a one-time donation when he came to our church. I just got an email today 8-1-2025 that he is still trying to take donations out of my old credit card. Mind you I had given a one time donation in 2020. He came to the church and met my father who at the time got diagnosed with pancreatitis ,diabetes, and a lot of other ailments that caused him to lose a lot of weight and be very very sick. Dan bohi himself in front of an entire congregation laid hands on my father and told him that he was a prophet from God and he had healing powers and my dad would be healed. That is such a sick thing to do to a scared and sick individual. I do believe in God’s grace and I believe if you pray and believe in his name you can be healed. But to tell a whole congregation that God gives you the power to heal people is just disgusting. He begged the church for money for his next missionary work and everybody got up and donated probably not knowing that the one time donation was going to be in every month deal till the day you die or like me cancel my credit card. But I’m sure a lot of elderly people who don’t realize that $10,$20 or more is constantly coming out of their bank accounts and into his pocket. I really don’t like to judge but at the time I was new to church and to me an overweight man who couldn’t even get out of a chair wanted to talk about how God gave him the power to heal people. I’m sorry but just looking at him screamed gluttony. And the way that he pushed his healing CDs and DVDs just gave off a crazy feeling of greed and I never went back to that church after that it ruined my entire experience.
I am sorry that this happened to you and your father. This is exactly what I have experienced from those that associate with Dan and others in the apostolic movement and it’s not ok: not rightly dividing the Word and not rightly shepherding those that are left in the wake of their doctrine and over realized eschatology.