COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A member of the "restoration team" that counseled Ted Haggard after he was fired as head pastor of New Life Church for sexual misconduct involving a male masseuse said he wished the former pastor wouldn't have started prayer meetings at his home.

In 2006, Haggard confessed to the New Life congregation that he had been involved in undisclosed "sexual immorality" and said he bought methamphetamine, but didn't use it.

According to a story published Sunday in The Christian Post , H.B. London, vice president of Pastoral Ministries at Focus on the Family, said he and others wish the former mega-church pastor would have followed their counsel rather than doing what he is now.

Haggard recently started Thursday evening prayer meetings at his home in Colorado Springs, with about 150 people attending. His home is a short distance from New Life Church.

London was part of a team overseeing a spiritual counseling program for Haggard after the sex scandal broke and he resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

The team expected the process to take several years but Haggard asked to end the team's oversight of him 14 months into the counseling program and he left the program in Arizona. He then began appearing on TV programs to talk about his experience and moved back to his home in Colorado Springs. The Christian Post reported that Haggard said "loads of New Lifers" had been writing to him on his Web site, TedHaggard.com, since his return to the public stage, some going as far as telling him they are being healed through his appearances.

"People love a good comeback story," Haggard told reporters after the first home prayer meeting.

"The irony of all of this is that, from the very beginning, Mr. Haggard had been counseled to go to another city, complete his restoration program, experience healing in his family and with his addiction, and only then begin again. But, he has made a choice not to do that," London told The Christian Post.

"We, who were members of his restoration team and those who served New Life Church as overseers, wish he would not do this. We feel it to be insensitive to a church that provided generously for him and his family for over a year after his misadventure. But, more than that, he violates his own words that he would not begin a new church," London added.

New Life Church started with prayer meetings in Haggard's home basement and grew to 10,000 members.

Haggard's full-time job now is as an insurance salesman.