We are glad to be able to present yet another format for bringing our unique verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book teaching of the holy bible. The new book broken faith, by mitch weiss and holbrook mohr, explores. From the shepherd s chapel in gravette, ar we have been presenting our fathers word via satellite since 1985 and today our daily onehour bible class is viewed on over 150 television. A study of conversion, proselytization, and maintenance of faith is a sociological book based on field study of a group of unification church. The shepherd s chapel is at best a very aberrant christian church and, at worst, a cult. The shepherd s chapel teaches modalism, the idea that god is one person who took different forms or modes. For the best experience please update your browser. As he listened and studied with shepherd s chapel he slowly changed his doctrines to align with the teachings of arnold murray. The shepherd s chapel is a church in arkansas, usa, that has gathered a large following via their tv ministry as well as youtube videos. Is denial of the trinity enough to make a group nonchristian. Broken faith is a gripping, meticulously reported account of a cult leaders grip on a. The pastor of the church, arnold murray, says he has a phd but suspiciously refuses to show any evidence to prove that this is true. The following list of teachings from the shepherd s chapel is derived from scouring the internet, chat rooms, bulletin boards, asking the followers of arnold murray, and looking at the shepherd s chapel web site. Shepherd s chapel, po box 416, gravette, ar 72736, united states 8006434645.
In western nations, a secular anticult movement and a christian countercult movement. Critics accuse the church of being a cult and obstructing efforts to fight the outbreak. Two awardwinning journalists have written a book revealing new details about an infamous north carolina church often characterized as a. A new religious movement nrm, also can be known as a new religion or alternative. The shepherd s chapel is, at the very least, a controversial church with many unorthodox doctrines.
New book documents story of word of faith fellowship, a bizarre pentecostal spinoff in n. New book explores when a community becomes a cult insidehook. In the late 1980s my grandfather, a baptist preacher for many years, stumbled across shepherd s chapel on his old cband satellite dish i was quite young at the time. A list of the shepherds chapel teachings is most revealing. The christian church has long condemned modalism as contrary to sound biblical theology. I strongly recommend that christians and nonchristians alike stay away from this pseudochristian group. Megachurch in south korea accused of spreading coronavirus. Inside the word of faith fellowship, one of americas. Mary baker eddy, the american founder of christian science, spent fifteen years working on her book the manual of the mother church, which. Discussion in general theology started by bigchrisfilm, mar 31, 2006.
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