Some (not all) Christian Owned Businesses

In this mindset, it is the opposite of corporate churches. They would like to become “church corporations’ where they are a business on the outside but run the businesses like a church. I know people who worked in these ‘church corporation’ environments that when people got laid off, the ‘church corporation’ owners referred to them as ‘Achan” and ‘purging of the remnant’. Told them not to badmouth them for that was the equvalent to touching God’s anointed….

It goes far and beyond the four walls of the church….

One quibble with the quotation: “Some of the signs include emotionalism …” I was in a church-mafia situation where emotion was decried and distrusted, but in its place, those in charge relied on their supposed intellectual superiority to keep people in line (they were more bombastic than smart, and their boldness had decomposed into arrogance). The point is always manipulation and control, and one of the signs is a horrendous imbalance between mind and heart.

Since the group had an orthodox Evangelical theology (i.e. similar to Fundamental Baptist mixed with Charismatic, with heavy emphasis on “Discipleship”), it was NOT considered a “cult” despite its cultic “Christian Mafia” behavior. How many (like me) reached out to other Christians like the cult watch groups only to be told (judging entirely on theology instead of behavior) that the group was Truly Christian and it was our Rebellious Fleshly Nature that caused our doubts, just like our Discipleship Masters “God Saithed”?

When I discovered D&D, I was able to get out of there (written off as a Lost Backslider); I found out years later others required kidnapping and deprogramming. But they weren’t a “Cult” because their Christology was orthodox (if hyper-Fundamentalist)!

How many others have had their heads permanently messed up (to the point of “Take Your God And Shove It!”) in the same way and either burned out or NEVER got out?