Leaderboard

"Working the Word" now means "working words, feelings or sensations" . . . perhaps transparency is more subjective than I have been allowing it to be?

Multiple choice question – worth 4 Rock of Ages meal tickets You know you’re in a cult when ____ A. Your Twig coordinator reproves you for a slip of the tongue when you said, “I sponsor someone in the way cult.” B. Your Twig coordinator finds out about your Christmas bonus and reminds you to abundantly share from that too. C. Your Twig coordinator asks you to teach something new and exciting out of The Blue Book. D. Your Twig coordinator assigns you to under-shepherd the new person he witnessed to on the street and suggests you have him do some odd jobs around your home so he can earn money for the class. E. Your Twig coordinator informs you that God is going to bless you big time for letting the branch use your home for the next PFAL class. F. Your Twig coordinator thanks you profusely for covering the last three auto-mechanic’s bills on his clunker. G. Before making any big decisions you always check with your Twig coordinator. H. Sometimes you feel guilty for wishing your Twig coordinator would drop dead. I. All of the above. J. All without exception

You know you’re in a harmful and controlling cult when leadership endeavors to micromanage your faith, your social life, your finances, and all of your relationships with their leave-no-stone-unturned-invasive-strategy. You know you’re in a pseudo-Christian cult when leadership endeavors to take the place of the absent Christ through the lordship of their Pharisaism. You know you’re in a life-dominating-morally-depraved-cult when leadership behaves as if they are above the laws of the land – being a law unto themselves. You know you’re in a life-sucking-money-grubbing-cult when they tell you that the truth will set you free – but the truth itself is not free – because there’s a minimum required donation for the stupid class.