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        Jehovah’s witnesses, Mormons, etc… who are they, why are they always knocking on my door and what can I do for them and about them? They have taking my friends and family captive they will no longer talk to me unless I convert to their faith. They seem friendly enough, but sometimes they are very exclusive and deceitful. They hide what the truly believe from the uniformed saying it is okay to lie using the similarities and presupposed errors in Christianity to ensnare uniformed. They believe they are secure in their little segregated world and they easily ensnare the uniformed. They heavily rely upon psychological manipulation, peer pressure, false assumptions, exaggerations, fabrications, memorization techniques, programming, association, expectations, lack of hope, depravity of society and the general lack of knowledge and apathy most believers in America and other Countries. Most Cults are "Pseudo Christian" cults, they call themselves "non-profit" organizations. Each one proclaims their church movement or society to be the "only true prophet," that God speaks through today and the only way to salvation. They all give the same claim, but who is right, and what does the word of God say. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Muslims, The Way International, Church Of Christ, and other cults are well trained, very dedicated, highly efficient, effectively brain washed, Defensive, Collectively resistant, predictable, programmed but they do not know it. They are Organizationally secure not seeking truth, oblivious to reality, blind guides, and completely oblivious to all the above.

        Most cults use a false sense of security, an empty depthless love, fear, manipulation and punishment to keep many deceived in their churches, congregations, etc… Their idea of salvation is hard work and complete obedience to the church, organization, and society through as many hours of dedication that you can sacrifice. They claim to be, "The Only True Church" claiming that true Christianity has been extinct since the apostles, most of these churches have an innate anti-supernatural bias. They use many exaggerations, fabrications and inflammatory statements making themselves sound good and all their enemies’ evil. They use such exaggerations as: that signs such as a burning bosom prove there Church is the true Church instead of using the word of God and following scripture. This kind of subjectivity is faith destroying, and manipulative at the least it lacks scriptural wisdom and discernment. Signs and wonders should be in the church according to scripture but that does not prove whether a church is of God or not they will be true and false miracles according to scripture. Therefore, what must we do? We must learn how to use spiritual discernment to test the spirits and see if it lines up with scripture. No new movement or organization that claims to be what God is doing will ever contradict scripture or historic Christianity. To most cults, high paying jobs are a sin and healthy living is a sin. You must be paid barely enough to live on. They use the tactics of showing a possible convert how hopeless they are, how bad society is and that they end of the world coming, the day of Judgment of. Most cultists get the prospective convert to see how insecure they are and how unprepared and unorganized their life is to meet the doom of the world to come Armageddon. They get the person feeling hopelessness and guilty. Then they offer hope and order informing the perspective converts that they are the only ones that truly understand the mystery of God, Godhood, His divine Name or attributes, and that they are the only true way. Thus, convincing the wayward hopeless guilt filled soul to start a bible study to try out the faith and see if it makes sense. This is a highly effective method used most efficiently by JW’s, Mormons, and Church of Christ. Church of Christ will set prospective believers in a room tell them how sinful and evil they are and that if they do not repent and follow them they will be punished by God in the end.

        Most cults dissect God making Him less than He is, taking away from scripture the true impact of Jesus death on the cross. They use fear tactics they are rather effective but completely manipulative, controlling, deceiving and leave out a persons discernment and reasoning capabilities because what they were just told is presented as fact even though all the truth is not presented. One must learn how to decipher truth and study to find truth on their own. They use Psychological Manipulation, Peer pressure, Scare tactics, Programming, Memorization techniques, Mind Control, Fear of rejection/Fear of dis-fellowshipping yet there is no retribution for sin according to their beliefs and they have this many people deceived. I wonder why and how other than commonly used Psychological Manipulation, Programming and Brain washing through constant reinforcement, fear, slander, propaganda, Distorting the truth, Exaggerating attacks, attacking peoples character, in their literature. This is general what they call in war demonizing the enemy, which is commonly done by both sides before any resolution of a matter is tried. The Church of Jesus Christ is in a pre-mature baby stage of the reformation were slanderers and backstabbing are the way we try to solve problems. The church has not fully grown up on the church that is to reach every tribe, tongue and nation we are still focused in our little groups we need to break camp and go for the lost. Cultist are castrated not ministered to, ex-cultist wander from church to church seeking truth usually becoming pagans because there is lack of proper ministry in the local church to those who have been brain washed. Most churches do not know how to minister to them, they do not understand their felt needs and real needs, hurts, doubts, confusion, bewilderment, feelings of abandonment, disillusionment, consternation, lack of spiritual and natural understanding etc… They do not know how to debug ex-cultist who having all that they have learned turn out to be a farce. They become totally lost and confused, sheep without a shepherd, in need of desperate help.

        What are we doing? We sit on the sidelines and let the people perish, translation we let them go to hell with out reaching out to them and we shall stand before God someday and He will ask us why we haven’t helped them. We pray for them and hope that will be enough but the word of God says how can they hear the gospel without a preacher. Who is going to tell them? Most churches do not understand any of this. They go through years of frustration and hopelessness many become agnostics and atheist not having found a strong root in Jesus. Usually cultist have no assurance of salvation, no future heavenly hope, no retribution for sin, and no personal relationship with The One and Only True Eternal Lord God; Jesus Christ, Yahweh, and Holy Spirit. They distort the Trinity making Him a three-headed amalgam. They still lead many astray and hold millions captive to their hopeless faith doomed to eternal retribution.

        Scary memorization methods even used by some modern day Christian Cult Apologist writers used to cause the reader of a book to accept there writings as truth without question. These memorization techniques are using highly exaggerated phrases repeatedly in an attacking warlike, good guy/bad guy type wording causing the reader to accept the written word as complete truth as though it is the very word of God. The writers of Cultist articles, books, magazines, and doctrines use these scare tactics hoping and in most cases, successfully causing the reader to accept what they are teaching as truth without questioning what is written. They way the words are presented and the derogatory remarks used causes those reading these books articles of magazine to think they are learning to seek truth for themselves. When all actuality they are excepting an errant humans misgivings as fact because of the techniques used to manipulate masses to believe as they do. Instead of laying out the facts and allowing, those involved the freedom and idea to choose to seek the truth for themselves. There are no cult debugging deliverance programs or ministries in the local churches they don’t know what these emotionally confused people who have lost faith in their God, church, and people need how to deal with them. They need someone to show them love and friendship to disciple them and take time for them but not a whole lot of people see this vital missing truth.

        This article is intended to bring you mind to an awareness of what is going on, a realization of a devastating need and a crying in your heart to obey God and minister to these needy and spiritual destitute folk. It is amazing that cults can mislead to many so easily. How they mislead many is quickly understood if we look at scripture, it is not just a mental battle. Rather it is also a spiritual battle, Eph 6:10-18; 2 Cor 10:4-5. They are being lead astray by lying spirits, and deceitful doctrines of man not knowing they are being deceived, But how can they be going after God and be deceived? This question and more shall be answered in length in this book. I hope that this will become a complete volume that answers at least the most important issues and brings a solution or a framework on how to bring about a conclusion to these missing ministries in the body of Christ. At the bare minimum, I hope that this book brings the awareness of a dire need in the body or Christ in ministry to the world. If I can not do anymore than awaken you to the reality that there is a major need in the world today in and outside of the body of Christ not just in cults. Everyone needs to know the gospel of Jesus whether they come to the fullness of salvation or not that is between them and God we must do what God has called us to do without question. They can not hear the gospel without a preacher. You can not be a James chapter two Evangelists and expect them to come to God you must go without question. If you are saved, you are called to them, go! Go now.

        If hell is so real act like it and tell them. If cults are, what we believe they are it is time to act like it and not just write books. We must act upon it. We must set up ministries to deal with these issues weekly to show the love of Christ. You say why set up a ministry focused upon cults because the pastors and other ministers can not take a little time every once in a while to deal with these issues it will not work. These people need extensive in-depth ministry and a pastor or existing ministry can not do this they will have to leave one ministry to go after the other. We must raise up a new level and group of ministries to reach out to these people. I do not want to write this book, I just want to do it but the world must know. This book can reach more people than I can in person. (Matt 24:14; 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Rom 10:17; James 2) What must we do we stand at the crossroads of the twenty-first century what will we do? Will the church backslide further. Jonathan Edwards said, "Revival presupposes a declination, that the church is in a backslidden state." If we need revival Jonathan Edwards believes we are backslidden. If we are backslidden, we must return to our first love, which is Jesus and the lost. Please turn from your sin stop dividing and start uniting. The Baptists do not like the Charismatics, the Charismatics do not like the Pentecostals, the AOG condemns the Word of Faith, etc… People are going to hell, shut up! Pool your resources and get together and start building bridges not among your doctrinal issues you will never change your stubborn mind start uniting in evangelism. Unit in the fundamentals of faith which most Christian Churches today to they dispute on non-important extra-biblical issues. Get over your religion and hang up get to the heart of the matter Jesus. Do something constructive.

        In this article, I intend to write generally to those wanting to minister to ex-cultist and present cultist or those just curious as to what a cultists is. Those who want to follow Christ in making disciples converting them, teaching them and building strong Christians who will follow Jesus and know why, who and how they are to follow whether they are in a cult or not. I hope that you will see the urgent need for ministry in these areas of the Church. Although this book is aimed at debugging and ministering to cultist and ex-cultist one of the more important issues is bring the church to the full awareness that we are not following Christ commission in making spiritual biblically based disciples. We are not teaching believers in the way they should go they are not fully equipped to defend their faith. They are not fully equipped and do not know how to minister or disciple these needy-disillusioned ex-cultists or even how to witness to present cultist. Sunday school alone is not working we need to do more to show them we truly care we need to spend more time and put more effort into saving them, equipping them and sending them. There is a lot of confusion on both sides this is satan’s strategy we must disarm him and equip the saints to be on the winning side. At this point, we are just a mere distraction. We must do more for more is required. The LORD wants to awakening the church to revive the ministry of discipleship as Christ practiced and taught and as the Apostles, Bishops, Overseers, Prophets, Pastors, Evangelist, Elders, Deacons, and Teachers in the New Testament. Originally I planned to deal only with Jehovah’s Witnesses but God has changed the focus to all cults and churches. This is a message to the entire church. These principles and techniques can be used and applied when dealing with most cult movements. I am also writing this as a ex-cultist coming out of a false prophet church having meet the true Jesus as my personal Lord and savior and having dealt with many of these issues. I plan to lay out some of the lack of discernment and lack of proper ministry to ex-cultist and how to better minister to those in need. I aim to focus more on the fixit than the blame it.

        There is too much focus on what is wrong and must be more focus on what must be done to fix it. I plan to do this here and I hope I do not want to be too caught up on the wrong although that must be dealt with and brought to light that it might be repaired. I do not do this as attack or counter-attack I am simply trying to provide an effective lay out for ministering to ex-cultist and present cult church member. I plan to layout a section on how to read the word and get a foundation of what you believe before you try to share it with others. This can stop you from causing more problems than helping as you truly intend to do. I will try to lay out how to study other peoples beliefs in relation to how can you best minister to them as a traditional evangelical Christian. I hope that you will enter this study with an open mind and a willing heart. I love you and wish Godspeed to you. In all that is done us, as Christians must follow the leading of the Holy Spirit all the doctrine in the world will not save a soul only the convicting of the Holy Spirit.

Part 2 My Testimony

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~Equipping the Saints~
~Evangelizing the World~
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~And Mending the Broken Hearted~
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