Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Church Manila announcing to you a new
series we're going to have on our YouTube channel. And it's Reasons Why We
Are Not a Cult. Okay, Reasons Why We Are Not a Cult. And so one thing that you've
seen if you've been, you know, Christian or serving the Lord for any amount of
time is once you decide to start reading the Bible and going soul winning, they
accuse you of being part of a cult. Now, you know, this is obviously a big insult
that people have and they're trying to put you down and make you feel bad. But
you know, you have to ask yourself a couple questions just to begin with. You
know, the word cult is not found in our Bible. So when you look at the word cult,
you have to ask yourself, is it even a bad thing to be a part of a cult? Now, I
would say it is a bad thing to be a part of a cult, but a lot of the accusations
that they give you are not really true. They're misleading. If we were to look at
the very famous cults that are out there, we were to look at Jim Jones and the
Jonestown Cult, the Wintigiana and Charles Manson and people like that, you
know, we look at them and say, this is what a cult is. And then we can kind of
understand. But then people will look at you if you're an independent fundamental
Baptist and say, well, you're a part of a cult too because you're, you know, really
extreme and you're a small number of people, etc, etc. But what makes Jim
Jones and Jonestown a cult and what makes Charles Manson a cult is not
because of the fact that there's few in number. It's not because of the fact that
they have beliefs that are different than most people. It's because of the
tactics and strategies that they use and the way they manipulate people and, you
know, are deceptive to people and hide information from people and control
people. And so we're gonna find out in this short series is that, you know, we
at Verity Baptist Church Manila and like-minded churches, we're not part of a
cult. We don't fit the description of a cult because we don't try to do those
things. We don't try to manipulate people. We don't try to hide information like
the Jonestown cult does. But what you're also gonna find is there are some major
religions that have tons of people that would actually fit very well with what a
cult actually is. And so, you know, anyways, I just wanted to announce this series to
you. I hope you will enjoy it. And obviously, if you're out there and you're
a soul winner, you've had that accusation thrown at you that you are in a cult.
What you're gonna find out is that a lot of these people throwing these
accusations at you, they're actually part of what is pretty much like a cult.
Whether or not there's millions of people in that cult or whether or not
it's a small number of people, they are actually following the same strategies
and being manipulated just like they were in Jonestown and other areas. Thank
you and God bless.