DISCIPLE

by Dave Hunt The evangelical church today is being seduced as never in its history. It faces a danger so grave that, although we have discussed this problem before, it must be addressed again with new insight and vigor. If evangelicals succumb to the seduction (as they increasingly are doing), then their gospel witness will be submerged in confusion and could eventually be lost—a tragic and new dimension to the apostasy from which the church and the world will never recover. Most astonishing and alarming is the fact that (with few exceptions) evangelical leaders and even the major cult watchers refuse to acknowledge this threat. We are therefore compelled to address the subject once again with renewed concern.   An Incredible Partnership      For decades evangelicals have diligently and faithfully attempted to identify, analyze and warn the church against cults. Included in the standard list are Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Unity ...

It is alarming to see how some people who have been in assembly fellowship can easily leave for almost any reason, and go join a denominational church, as if it were all the same. Some even respond acrimoniously when admonished, "You take this assembly thing too far, almost like a cult." This reveals an alarming lack of Scriptural conviction about the Lord's will concerning church fellowship. To justify themselves they attack the assembly attempting to stigmatize it with the word "cult."  There is a Scriptural pattern and those who cannot see it need to anoint their eyes with eyesalve (Rev. 3:18) and be cured from their Laodicean blindness. But worse yet are those who have been well taught, and turn their back on these important truths about the church in order to attend a denominational church for reasons like the size or nearness or popularity of the church, or because they have a good music program, or larger group of young people." Some of the worst ...