The Trail Through False Teaching

In "My Three Years in a Christian Cult" Peter Schwendener recounts is life from the time he accepted Christ on January 6, 1973. Soon he was involved with Shiloh Fellowship in East Lansing, Michigan. The group, like many groups in that time, became involved in the Shepherding Movement, and added deliverance ministry where one of the leaders discerned Peter had “demon of knowledge,” because he had the "ungodly desire to understand things that should be taken on faith."  Even though he coughed up that particular demon, if didn't seem to help. We deal with many who have come from spiritually abusive groups, cults and authoritarian teachers. Often, they walk away from the faith altogether. Some are barely holding on and are somewhat fearful about asking questions. Peter seems to have made his way out and decided, rightfully so, that the Christianity he left may not have been the biblical faith: 

“I have lived with the memory of Shiloh Fellowship for a long time and tried to figure out what it meant. I am tempted to think that it had nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity, but that is probably going too far. I am now a member of the Episcopal Church who believes, for what it is worth, every part of the Nicene Creed. What Shiloh Fellowship and the Charismatic movement ruined for me was not Christianity. It was the notion of God as something pulsing, immediate. That sounds like a wonderful idea, and perhaps it is if you happen to be Julian of Norwich or St. John of the Cross. It is, in many ways, the religious equivalent of hard drugs. I am a Christian partly because I perversely enjoy the red tape of going to church, believing in crazy things like the Incarnation, singing bad hymns, and generally seeing everything through a glass, darkly.”

What he left was the hyped-up spiritualism and emotionalism which punished followers that wanted to engage their minds into the life of faith. You know, loving God with all of your heart, soul and mind. (Mark:12:30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
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