Is the Church I’m Going To “A Cult”?
Over the last 6 months, I’ve had multiple people contact me asking if the church they are going to is “a cult”. The frequency of the inquiry is itself cause for interest and may be related to the increasingly tribal nature of the evangelical church in North America. We may be spending so much time within our closed communities that we are losing the ability to recognize and empathize with one another. It may also be that the increased focus on unhealthy examples of church polity has made people more attuned to the possibility that they may have wandered into...