Why Ignoring Cults is Wrong

As a Christian, ignoring cults is not the answer. Here are 4 ways to fruitfully and compassionately engage - by cults expert Pastor Atwebembeire in Uganda
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"In my ministry as a pastor, I meet a number of Christians who ask me questions about cults. And usually their most pressing question is this. "How should the Church rightly or appropriately respond to cults? If I am a Christian, or even a Christian leader like a pastor, and I know of a cultic group that is operating in the neighbourhood, what should be my appropriate attitude or response?"

How Should I Respond To Cults?

"Do I just ignore them as long as they are not part of my church or they are not stealing away my church members? Do I address them and if so, how do I address them? Should I just warn my members about them and tell them never to join their church and let them be? What is really the appropriate response to cults and false religious groups?

There are a number of ways in which people or Christians today respond.

One of them, of course, is the wrong way. That in most cases, Christians respond by clicking 'ignore'. It's because especially out of ignorance. So, they do not know much about the cultic group. And since they don't know this particular group, they choose to ignore it because they don't know how to engage them.

I have also met Christians who will become indifferent to the cultic group. The 'I don't care' attitude'. "As long as they are not in my Church, as long as no one I know among my loved ones is involved, who cares what they believe or what they say?"

So, you have believers who respond out of indifference and walk away. You have Christians who respond ignorantly for not knowing what the group believes. Either they misrepresent them, or they attack them wrongly, or they totally ignore them. But you also have those believers who respond rightly. And what is the right approach?

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