A new religious movement nrm, also can be known as a new religion or alternative. For the best experience please update your browser. 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. The christian church has long condemned modalism as contrary to sound biblical theology. The shepherd s chapel is at best a very aberrant christian church and, at worst, a cult. Inside the word of faith fellowship, one of americas. Most go along with this cult that teaches the rapture that didnt start till 1830, but its growing into the largest cult in the world.
Broken faith is a gripping, meticulously reported account of a cult leaders grip on a. The shepherd s chapel is, at the very least, a controversial church with many unorthodox doctrines. A list of the shepherds chapel teachings is most revealing. 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. In western nations, a secular anticult movement and a christian countercult movement. I strongly recommend that christians and nonchristians alike stay away from this pseudochristian group. Mary baker eddy, the american founder of christian science, spent fifteen years working on her book the manual of the mother church, which. The new book broken faith, by mitch weiss and holbrook mohr, explores. The shepherd s chapel teaches modalism, the idea that god is one person who took different forms or modes. Megachurch in south korea accused of spreading coronavirus.
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. Critics accuse the church of being a cult and obstructing efforts to fight the outbreak. 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. The shepherds chapel questions and answers period, aired 5. Is denial of the trinity enough to make a group nonchristian. Discussion in general theology started by bigchrisfilm, mar 31, 2006.
A study of conversion, proselytization, and maintenance of faith is a sociological book based on field study of a group of unification church. As he listened and studied with shepherd s chapel he slowly changed his doctrines to align with the teachings of arnold murray. New book documents story of word of faith fellowship, a bizarre pentecostal spinoff in n. Two awardwinning journalists have written a book revealing new details about an infamous north carolina church often characterized as a.
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