Cultic Christianity...who is the REAL Jesus anyway!?!

One morning, when I was about ten years old I was at home watching the latest rental on VHS, "Spaceballs" and eating the previous night's left-over pizza when suddenly there was a knock on the door...Nobody was home except for me and usually nobody usually cared to come down my long driveway anyway so this was odd. So, I mosied to the door to find two skinny men about 20 or so with black suits, ties and propping up some sweet bicycles....you guessed it, Mormons!

The question they posed to me irritates me to this day. The leader of the group said "if you were to die today would you spend eternity with the almighty creator in Heaven?" I was ten, y'all! Well, I kept a stiff upper lip and answered yes to all of their incriminating questions. Then my mom returned home and laid some serious protestant smack down on them. There is nothing that I am any more leary of than overzealous, pushy, and even worse cultic churches!!!

In many ways this is the kind of thing that led me to embrace ask deeper questions at an early age. I never wanted to get caught off-guard again. God is not one to confuse or one to complicate things. But what exactly is Mormonism and further what exactly are Jehovah's Witnesses...what is CULTIC CHRISTIANITY in general.

We live in a culture that is Biblically illiterate. As a result we (starting with me) tend to not really know anything about CULTS or what it means to be a follower of Jesus.

DR. STEVEN TSOUKALAS, a guest professor at Asbury Theological Seminary and professor at Center College will briefly address Cultic Christianity for discussion tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8th at 7:30 p.m. (Student Center, Room 230). I can't wait to see you all!

...We seek truth, we seek real life, we seek Jesus Christ.