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When is a Heresy a Cult?
Dispatches from the Global Village
By Brian Stiller
Spiritual movements produce bizarre and often cult-like offshoots. Nowhere is this truer than in Brazil.
The explosion of Christian faith in Latin America, and indeed in the world, occurs in an environment where ideas framed by hope, accelerate popularity of some giving influence to self-proclaimed prophets.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is now a world phenomenon. Beginning in the 1970s, its founder Edir Macedo had come to Christian faith in the Igreja Cristã de Nova Vida a Brazilian Pentecostal church pastored by a Canadian, Robert McAlister, of the famous pioneering Canadian family of the early 20th century. Macedo broke away from McAlister and today claims churches in 200 countries with millions of members...
Read this and more at:www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/Communicat…esy-a-Cult
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Dispatches from the Global Village
By Brian Stiller
Spiritual movements produce bizarre and often cult-like offshoots. Nowhere is this truer than in Brazil.
The explosion of Christian faith in Latin America, and indeed in the world, occurs in an environment where ideas framed by hope, accelerate popularity of some giving influence to self-proclaimed prophets.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is now a world phenomenon. Beginning in the 1970s, its founder Edir Macedo had come to Christian faith in the Igreja Cristã de Nova Vida a Brazilian Pentecostal church pastored by a Canadian, Robert McAlister, of the famous pioneering Canadian family of the early 20th century. Macedo broke away from McAlister and today claims churches in 200 countries with millions of members...
Read this and more at:www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/Communicat…esy-a-Cult