Jim Jones Cultivated a Following

12/29/08 Updated 1/1/09 Last month, on November 18th, was the 30 year anniversary of the massacre at Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 people lost their lives by poisoning or gunshot in a mass suicide supplemented by murder. While questions remain as to what actually...

Coercive Church Leaders

It is wrong for a man to turn the fellowship of the saints into a religious system that revolves around himself.  It is wrong for a man to consider himself a dictator over a congregation of Christians.  It is wrong to create a totalitarian system where there is no...

“Some of my best friends” are clergymen…

Some of the men I have respected most have been clergymen. I do not support the concept of a professional clergy system, but I do love and appreciate many who might be considered clergy. Not all clergymen are truly elders/pastors, called of God. Many clergymen have...

The Cult of the Clergy

In what ways does the Professional Clergy System act like an Occult Brotherhood? True New Testament Fellowship is not New The Professional Clergy System Freemasonry, the Occult Brotherhoods, and Secret SocietiesFreemasons and Other Occult Brotherhoods Occult Terms...

The Professional Clergy System

The New Testament does not command the establishment of a Professional Clergy System. When the Professional Clergy System acts as a priesthood over the laity, as a mediator between God and Man, it is in rebellion against God. Elders or evangelists receiving support...