Is Your Church A Cult

     I believe these day many people have misused the word CULT.  So here is the definition:
CULT
noun


1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.

2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.

3. the object of such devotion.

4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.

5. Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.

6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.

7. the members of such a religion or sect.

8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.

 
     Of course the definition has taken a bad spill to only have a negative connotation but let us look at it for what it is:
 
1.  a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.

We are devoted to Christ.  As Christian we have what people call ceremonies.  Baptism, Eucharist or Communion, Marriage, Ordination.  This is all part of the Christian Church.  The Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ.  The Celebration of these and the looking forward of it.

2.  an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers.
We have a great veneration for Christ.  We love Him and the Faith in which we live in.  We are His body and the lovers of Jesus.  Our devotion should be so great that everything else should look like hate.  That's why Jesus said "you must hate your mother, father and brother to be worthy of me."  What this means is that our Love for God should be so much that anything close looks like hate.

3.   the object of such devotion.

(SAME AS ABOVE)

4.  a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.

They all came together in one accord.  Acts 2.  Be of the same mind.  Philippians 2:2

5.  Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
(THIS IS BAD)  Even though Christians honor the Cross and its messages it is not to be treated as God himself.  Are you forced to bow down to statutes, crosses, pentagrams or other things?  Then you are in a Bad Cult



6.  a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
(NOW THIS IS THE ONE THAT IS BAD)  Look at how this is fashioned.  Is your life lived under a Charismatic Leader.  Are you told what to do and how to do it?  Can you make your own choices?  Are you controlled in what to believe or not to believe about a grey issue?  If you do not believe in the grey issue are you rejected?  (GREY MEANING:  RAPTURE, PREDESTINATION, REVELATION)
You are in a bad cult.  If the above is what you are living.
   If you are rejected because you live in sin and a worldly lifestyle and called to live a Holy life for God you are not in a Cult you are in the TRUE CHURCH of Jesus Christ.

7.  the members of such a religion or sect.
????  I guess they mean of above. 

8.  any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.

(I think this was just added and a stretch on the definition)

CONCLUSION,

orship with us can do whatever they please.  People have choices and decisions.  People can believe what they want to beleive in certain issues.  More power to them.  They have Free Will.  If people don't want to follow or do what is right that is their choice, not mine.  With that said, the moment they stop following Jesus Christ according to the Bible and stop believing in the essential parts of Salvation and the Gospel, Let them be accursed.  If you are part of a group of people who does not teach holiness, righteuousness, obedience and full devotion to Christ, but rather boasts on its programs, events and people than you are in a BAD CULT.  Galatians 1:9

     I am Charasmatic for Jesus, I am radical for Jesus, I am excited for Jesus, and I am His servant.  I will preach against sin, the ways of worldliness, fornication, homosexuality and other sins.  I will teach and preach to people to follow God, shun evil and live a Holy lifestyle.  I will give him all I have and everything I have.  My home, my car, my family and my life.  If that makes me a CULT than may I be the greatest of all CULT leaders.  In Jesus Name!