Calvary Chapel Cult??
Date: June 07, 2007 01:13AM
> When do you see him if he is always at church or working/sleeping etc?
Umm, didn't you read her post? That is part of the problem, she hardly sees him because all his time is spent with Calvary. Way to miss the point...
>You mention AA and the Starbucks thing. Is your boyfriend in drug or >alcohol rehab or is the coffee thing an afront to you?
Like she said, it's pretty tacky to have a Starbucks inside of a church. I drink Starbucks, too, but I wouldn't want one in a place of worship. Perhaps you do not live in America, Frank, but one of the great crises of Christianity in America is the prevalence of "New Age" Christian churches that
a) look like box stores.
b) push hard-line politics
c) advertise and put large amounts of money into attracting people with gimmicks like "singles night", meant to draw in the lonely.
d) incorporate self-help messages of greed, similar to "the Secret" or "think and grow rich" kind of stuff to appeal to people's materialism and consumerism. All totally contrary to the message of Jesus. The fine line between "What the Bleep" and televangelism is rapidly disappearing.
Calvary is the epitome of this phenomenon.
>In all honesty if Calvary Chapel was the cult you and others claim it is >your boyfriend would have been given an ultimatim by now in regards to >you.
Not necessarily. Groups work in different ways on different issues. Even if they don't "give him an ultimatum" does not make it a mentally healthy environment. Personally, I have seen a close family member go down the Calvary road and the results are not pretty. She married a Calvary guy and has turned into an intolerant hypocrite, where she was once a wonderful, caring person.