Calvary Chapel Is A Cult

Religion Today Summaries - September 9, 2011

5 months and 600 arrests later, the Chinese Church Still Defying Beijing

Baptist Press reports that on August 28, five members of a house church in Fangshan, China, woke up at 4 am and traveled for two hours to a public square in Beijing, to worship with members of church besieged Beijing Shouwang home. When they arrived at 7 am, police waiting at the back sent five of their local police station. Officials and urged them to sign the documents to repent of their decision to support the church Shouwang. All five refused, but were finally released.The five are part of Fangshan a growing wave of Christian house churches determined - despite the consequences - to support Shouwang Church in its five months of time standing greater religious freedom. Shouwang members tried to answer in the outdoor room every Sunday since April 11, after having repeatedly denied government officials access to a permanent place of worship. Church leaders prayer decided on this action plan as a way to force the government to solve their dilemma. Over 600 arrests were made during the last 22 weeks, 15 of August 28 and 12 arrests on Sept. 4.Police arrest Christians before the service begins and usually release them even within 24 hours. More than 160 people were arrested at the first outdoor meeting of the Church Shouwang.

Evangelical left National Cathedral 9 / 11 Program

According to FOX News, A weekend of religious observances on the theme of memorial 9 / 11 at Washington National Cathedral include a Buddhist nun, a rabbi, a Hindu priest, a reincarnate lama, and an imam. No evangelical Christian minister has been invited, causing Frank Page of the Southern Baptist Convention to ask President Obama to reconsider attending the event."It is not surprising," said the page. "There is a tragic intolerance towards Protestants and especially to evangelicals and I wish the president would refuse to talk unless it is more representative." Richard Weinberg, director of the Cathedral of the communication, confirmed that neither Baptists South, nor other evangelical denominations have issued an invitation to participate. "The goal was to have representation religions. The cathedral itself is an Episcopal church and it goes without saying that our own clergy to serve Christian representatives.

New BBC Open Forum: Calvary Chapel ®: Church or Cult?

There has been much discussion in the world blog on "sects" of Mormonism and Catholicism. I have not weighed on these topics that I really have nothing to add to the discussion right now, but it got me thinking about other churches that appear cult-like way. One is the Calvary Chapel churches ®. (Yes, the name is copyrighted.) They call themselves a "confession", but rather a "movement" or award "of the churches."On the surface, their teachings seem somewhat in line with those of Baptists and other major Protestant churches, but scratch the surface and you will find more significant differences. In fact, we believe them this page seems rather vague, almost like a "we'll catch up we will" philosophy. For a better understanding of what they believe it is necessary to delve into Calvary Chapel Distinctives Chuck Smith. The allegations of sexual abuse and cover-ups abound. For readers who are interested, just Google the subject.Someone could start a new blog just to cover the stories that come out of this one name ... uh ... movement. People have asked Christa Brown Stop Baptist Predators why it mainly focuses on offenders Southern Baptist. The fact is that, just keep track of those in the SBC is a full-time employment (including SBC still refuses to do). On a personal note, I personally know only a handful of people who were members of the CC. While some may have been a little eccentric to begin with, most of the "nutty" stemmed from their association with CC.When they did not speak their church you do not know they were different from others, but they made it clear that if you were not part of "" the church (CC) you were somehow beneath them . Reading some comments on the links above about the CC members to be "cliquish" and the thought of the CC is the only "true" Church certainly describes my experiences, albeit limited to them.

I recently left a Calvary Chapel because of the authoritarian culture. I felt like this was not right to disagree with a leader in small groups. He was not a pastor.He used sexual language and got involved in an activity that has guys and girls too close and said it was to trust the Lord. It creeped me bigtime. I'm glad I left. I know what is normal in a church. I feel sorry for those who can Calvary Chapel churches, they do not know what Christianity is healthy.

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