Example of a church becoming a cult

[CC1]

Here is a link to an interesting article written by a woman who as a young girl attended a church that later became a cult. The pastor is now wanted on a national warrant for sexual child abuse.

I found the narrative of the story fascinating as it sounds like this church started out as a run of the mill Charismatic house church group and evolved into a cult.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/rea...-1226897311996

[Michael The Disciple]

That sounds like they were part of The Way International. I visited a Church that was heavily influenced by them in 1975. Sadly on my second visit there I invited my parents. They loved it! I was very disappointed after that visit and did not go back.

However my folks became members there. They were not actual members of the Way but they purchased teaching Materials from them and held basically the same doctrines.

The leader of The Way Victor Weirwille himself fell into adultery. They were big into OSAS.

[Abiding Now]

That is awful.

[Michael The Disciple]

Here is a short video that shows the "before" stage of a group that started out with a bang. Origins about 1968. In the beginning won thousands to Christ and practiced strict morality and discipleship.

When we started our street ministry in the 70's we had never done such a thing. I was only a year old in the Lord. Our first night on the street we met a young couple as we witnessed in the Bus Stop at Dayton Ohio.

They were part of "The Children Of God". We struck up a friendship with them as they had just moved to the Dayton area. For a while afterwards we hung out together and we learned about street witnessing from them.

They tried to get our group to merge with them. At first we really thought about it. Take 5 minutes and watch an early video of them starting a new commune in England.

[CC1]

MTD, very sad. I agree that these men who cause multiple persons to stumble will surely have special consequencces when judgement day comes.