Don't put leaders on pedestal. They are just human with flaws like everyone else. If one takes every word leaders said as coming from God, then that becomes a cult.

It is not so shocking that leaders in the church are becoming more like a cult figure. Wat is eve more shocking is why has the church become a prey to such cult leaders. wat is the reason?

I am grateful for this. Thank you! It’s not that calling people out of the sin of gossip is bad and cultish. It’s “how” these pastors use it to weaponize (fear them into silence when their abuses and misconducts) people with. I am still processing what I just went through with a community that has a reputation of being “cultish” and I didnt want to believe it but now that I walked away from it i see so many more red flags…and this video sheds light on some of what I’m processing.

19:00. Yes! But that's kind of how almost all of our churches act. It's EXTREMELY divisive.

In general, when people want to shrink the body if Christ to less then what we are taught in the Bible, you want to ask, whose earthly Kingdom are they trying to build. Certainly not our Savior's.

He’s a great reference!

Great video, thank you both

I agree with many of the points concerning cult behavior but to say it is cultic to say that there is one way to God Implies Christ is a cult leader. I am concerned that in our quest to expose abusive leaders that we lump scripture that deals with obvious sins as also abusive. Christ’s teaching deals with avoiding abusive leaders but he also taught about dying to oneself that drove people away and also because he expose their sins. Truth is not always popular especially in our culture that avoids anything that confronts our self-centered morality. I am vehemently a berean who always believe in reading scripture with critical thinking with also open to input from others who may confront with needed correction. We need a balance on both scriptures that encourages us and also invokes guilt because it expose something that needs to change.

Julie, remember we talked about 2 years ago in regards to ARC & the many ( family ) situations @ Church of the Highlands Megachurch here in Birmingham

You do important work and the BITE acronym is helpful. But when you use a pastor warning against gossip as an example of a cult it goes too far. If we are not careful every organisation we disagree with is gonna be labelled a cult. There needs the be more than "sniffing" - there needs to be objective factors that constitute cultlike control. And there needs to be a spectrum from anarchy to totalitarian.

I remember the moonies 🌙

Hi Julie. I live in the Fox river valley. Is there a Church you like?

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Do you think Applegate fellowship is a cult?

why yoy put books behind that people been atracted to buy. we need only one book its a Bible... 🤦🏼‍♀️

The Bible establish no denomination at all, and I have looked around and found no church denomination at all, not one, that is 100% perfect in all of it's teachings and doctrines. All denomination has doctrines to some degree, that is in open conflict not least with the teachings of Apostle Paul, who called himself the apostle for the gentile nations, and only according to the gospel, that the Holy Spirit revealed through him can we be saved at all. All major denominations in fact holds on to church doctrines, that openly oppose doctrines in scripture. Basically, you could claim, that today Christianity counts between 50-60.000 cults and not one true Bible based church in all matters. This is not an argument for ecumenism, by the way: To bow down to the false prophet and antichrist leader of the whore of Babylon in Rome, one of the wickedest men on Earth in a church, that all Reformers called out as antichrist church, that is literally insane. It is an argument for reading the Bible and not making man or denominations (institutions and tax exempt corporations) the final authority in spiritual matters and doctrines. Sola Scriptura!

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Never heard of that cult.

Call me a cult but according to Scripture, we shouldn’t turn to women for preaching, and teaching. Unless it’s an older woman teaching younger women on women matters.

You lost me on the fair election!

this is not christian teaching but only advertising cars and money