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What is a Cult? What is a Sect? What is a Church? | Doug Wilson

What is a Cult? What is a Sect? What is a Church? | Doug Wilson

Preacher: Doug Wilson
Tradition: Reformed — CREC
Published: Oct 20, 2021
Length: 44:20

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"We should want our definitions to be objective, and not emotional and subjective. Unless we are careful, we will wind up defining a cult as any intense religious group that we don’t happen to like. But we are not the standard. To the Scriptures, always to the Scriptures." In this sermon, preached at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, Pastor Doug Wilson discusses the questions, "What is a cult? What is a sect? What is a church?" This sermon is presented by Canon Press.

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