Good, Great Morning! A book written in the 80's is all too relevant today. It is called Churches That Abuse. It is not only the cults, but is becoming the #1 reason that people will not come to church today. A sad comment on Christianity. It is important to see if the church that you go to, may accidentally or on purpose practice these things.
The Biblical principle violated is very basic. IF each person has loved God with the "ALL" phrases in today's Scripture, they can put NO preacher, NO denomination, NO practice or thought of man ahead of God. In other words full surrender and ALL control is given to God.
What happens is thoughts of man, traditions of man, insecurities of the leaders and their lack of surrender to God can all play into this and because people put these things ahead of God in their love for Him, they make other Gods.
Have you heard of this before in Scripture? Many times! Right after Moses delivered the 10 Commandments, did the people not make a golden calf? What are our 'golden calves today?
I hope I have helped you today, the books are even better and more eye opening. One of the more effective and rising tools today for evangelism is home gatherings for Bible Studies in small groups because of this very reason with the Churches. Maybe this will inspire you to start such a gathering?
My prayer for us today is this:
