As I understand and have experienced, all mainstream Christian denominations, sects and cults proselytise, that is the ministers preach, the Church literature proliferates, attendance at services is a given, and the music and the architecture give glory to God. Last but not least, the Bible admonishes us all to spread the Word.
But the Word of God is Jesus, who is God (none of this Son of God nonsence, although I am a trinitarian) therefore it does not make sense to me that all of the paraphernalia I have just listed necessarily brings us closer to God. Any of them may help, but they are all manifestations arising in this world which is controlled by the devil and although I can enjoy some of what they present, I am forever wary of what the devil is up to.
Spreading the Word of God is a spiritual enterprise, not of this world. As Leo Tolstoy entitled his book "The Kingdom of God is Within You" so perceptively, we thus move into Christian Anarchism, which cannot be categorised as a denomination, sect or cult.
But the Word of God is Jesus, who is God (none of this Son of God nonsence, although I am a trinitarian) therefore it does not make sense to me that all of the paraphernalia I have just listed necessarily brings us closer to God. Any of them may help, but they are all manifestations arising in this world which is controlled by the devil and although I can enjoy some of what they present, I am forever wary of what the devil is up to.
Spreading the Word of God is a spiritual enterprise, not of this world. As Leo Tolstoy entitled his book "The Kingdom of God is Within You" so perceptively, we thus move into Christian Anarchism, which cannot be categorised as a denomination, sect or cult.
