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Why do you Christian Scientists, Branch Davidians, Unification, and Jehovah Witnesses have such strong unity?
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This morning my pastor was continuing our Sunday school lesson about the subject of church unity. We recently finished a discussion of “The Bait of Satan” book by John Bevere, so this was a follow up lesson. Today my pastor was making the point that the only true source of unity in a local church is mutual commitment (i.e., total commitment to our great God/savior and Creator of every thing, Jesus Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, also called Jehovah God).
Then an older man, probably in his early 90s, raised his hand to make a comment. He said that there was also another kind of unity, which he described as “fake unity.” He went on to explain that in the various cults, the members are taught that the only way of having any chance of getting eternal life is by being a member of that group. (We may call this “exclusiveness.”) So if the members do not “tow the line,” then they risk disfellowship by the elders or by the governing body. And if you are disfellowshipped, (and if you died in that “apostate” condition), then you would definitely not have eternal life. So he argued that there is a HUGE fear element in this. As he put it, very simply, FEAR is the main reason why you see such extraordinary “unity” in the various cults.