“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants…” There is a principle found in this text that talks to us all. It is possible for one to encourage others to leave one kind of bondage only to enter into another kind. The “promiser’s” kind. This type promises but cannot produce. The reason? They themselves are enslaved within their own group.
Many wonder how it is that cults can so easily sway Christians when recruiting them into their ranks. The answer is fairly simple. Most of their converts come from assemblies not unlike their own. Therefore, it takes very little adjusting on the part of the one who is proselytized. They feel more or less at home.
There are basically three main cultic characteristics: first, there is unquestioning loyalty to the leader; secondly, there is an exclusion of all who are independent thinkers; and thirdly, there is absolutely no spiritual growth to be seen. Let each of us beware lest we be a cultic Christian.
Addendum by D.M. Lloyd-Jones: "There are cults that can change your life, cults that can deliver you from things that defeat you, cults that can give you happiness. Psychotherapy also can do so, and many other agencies, even an operation on your brain. We must have a test. If the experience is not an experience of the living God through His Son who has come to live and to die and rise again in order to give it; if it is not through the Holy Spirit, it is not a true Christian experience."
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