When your church becomes cultish

Posted on July 3, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 17 Comments

If the leader or leadership of your church speaks ill of people after they leave, then that church is becoming cultish no matter how orthodox the teaching and worship might be.

It is not blind faith

In response to the idea that religious faith is blind faith, I ran across this paragraph from John Lennox and thought I would share it with you.

Encourage one another?

Sometimes we try to encourage someone and the encouragement we are trying to deliver feels like condemnation or worse to the one we encourage. I can think of three reasons why this may be the case.

The church is not the only army that shoots its wounded

I have heard it said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. After hearing all the fuss about Adrian Peterson these last few weeks, I now know that this statement is not true. It is not false because the church does not shoot her wounded. It is false because the church is not alone in this behavior.

The fight against inanity

The struggle I have is that the church can be just as unthinking and un-engaged as the people the author describes in the article. In the church, we have real answers to real questions, but too often the church is the last place where people feel comfortable asking those questions.

On corruption in government

A quote from Augustine stimulated some thoughts on how Christians should respond to government corruption and the willful deceit of the people.

When your church becomes cultish

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