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The Choice Making The Choice To Join A Church Or A Cult Whats The Difference · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the choice When it's extremely difficult to make
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  Speaker 1: up your mind, Having that power of choice can actually
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  Speaker 1: weaken a person's heart. On this episode, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: explore our choice to join in a church or join
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  Speaker 1: a cult. Aren't they one and the same. Plus, what
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  Speaker 1: is the real dividing line between a church and a cult?
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  Speaker 1: My name is Arrow. Life is a series of choices.
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  Speaker 1: Who decides when you're not making the right choice? And
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  Speaker 1: is it a fear of things going wrong? The greatest
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  Speaker 1: lessons in life are often lost inside hidden away attempts
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  Speaker 1: Having that choice is your daily gift. On this highway,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna learn how to trust mirages. What is the
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  Speaker 1: choice when we decide to make a choice to join
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  Speaker 1: a church? Isn't that really like joining a cults? Ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna get some trolls or bad emails. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual research from multiple levels of studies have really
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  Speaker 1: been done about this one thought, and those studies joining
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  Speaker 1: a church or feeling like you belong to a cult
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  Speaker 1: it's completely one hundred percent natural, but only on the surface.
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  Speaker 1: But they are absolutely one and the same thing, and
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  Speaker 1: those differences really do matter. Yeah, both a church and
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  Speaker 1: a cult involve community, shared beliefs and some level of commitment.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only place that you can actually compare religion
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  Speaker 1: with a cult. The big thing that separates them isn't
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  Speaker 1: the idea of belief. It's answering the question how much
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  Speaker 1: control does that group have over you? Both deal with
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  Speaker 1: group identity, rituals and traditions, leadership structure, and a sense
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  Speaker 1: of belonging to a purpose. Now here's the thing. They
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  Speaker 1: all exist in other forms of organizations such as sports teams. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: if that's not a cult, right? Nonprofit organizations and the
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  Speaker 1: job front Come on group identity. Look at how many
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  Speaker 1: employees are told to dress in the same exact clothes.
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  Speaker 1: That is a cult, yet it feels like it. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the rituals and traditions that we have at work
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  Speaker 1: that totally screams oh, not only just your job, but
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  Speaker 1: the world of sports. And how about those motivational speakers
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  Speaker 1: that want you to fit into their nonprofit organizations leadership structures. See,
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  Speaker 1: while feeling like you belong you gotta remind yourself. Is
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  Speaker 1: this like the Harley Davidson family where it's all these
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  Speaker 1: cool people getting together just to celebrate life on the
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  Speaker 1: road or does it go deeper and darker than that?
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  Speaker 1: And when you're in a cult? Is it dark? Coming
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  Speaker 1: up next on the choice joining a church and how
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  Speaker 1: it feels like a cult? Is there a real dividing line. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the choice. Does joining a church feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're joining a cult? I mean, there's got to
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  Speaker 1: be a dividing line, right, it's control versus choice. Let
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  Speaker 1: me say that one more time. It is control versus choice.
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  Speaker 1: A healthy church encourages questions as well as doubt. A
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  Speaker 1: cult discourages and punishes those questions. A church will let
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  Speaker 1: you come in and go freely, whereas a cult creates
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  Speaker 1: a connection. It's us versus them atmosphere. A trustworthy church
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  Speaker 1: doesn't isolate you from family and friends. The cult is
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  Speaker 1: calling you daily and they're trying to control your behavior,
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  Speaker 1: your relationships, and the way you think. It Truly is
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  Speaker 1: less about the label church and more about the health
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  Speaker 1: of the full environment. Two churches can still call themselves
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  Speaker 1: a church, which when you dig into the history of
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  Speaker 1: the church growth, can it be good or bad? Because
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  Speaker 1: there have been wars between churches that change the world.
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  Speaker 1: The question shouldn't be is this church or is this
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  Speaker 1: a cult? It's about how a group of people are treated,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to start asking those questions. Can I
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  Speaker 1: disagree without having to feel fear? Can I leave without
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  Speaker 1: being cut off? This one's a biggie. Do you feel
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  Speaker 1: any negative energy that would make it unhealthy mentally as
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  Speaker 1: well as physically. Fear and control? Are they a cult?
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  Speaker 1: If you are leaning more on growth and freedom, it's
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  Speaker 1: something to actually seek out. Is it a church? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a cult? Or? Man? Are you just joining the
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  Speaker 1: Harley Davidson family because it just feels so good to
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  Speaker 1: be out there on that road. Ooh, you can't ask
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  Speaker 1: for a better place. It really is a choice. I'm
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  Speaker 1: MARYL and that's what I was writing while the sun
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  Speaker 1: was waking up on a brilliant new day.