Dana, Some advice / experience I could offer is not to make your talk with your friend only about the doctrine of the Church of Christ. One of the books I read when I was still in a cult - and I wish I remembered what the title of it was now - said that most people don't join cults because of doctrine and most people don't leave cults because of doctrine. The authors of the book
Forum: Destructive Churches

A question, how do you escape from a group that is not a live-in situation (e.g., not communal)? I understand that members of a group can feel that theirs is an exclusive group, or that they have a higher calling than other groups do, and that therefore they need to be in their group. However, if you don't want to be a part of that group, you can just not show up anymore to the services or m
Forum: Recovery from Destructive Cults and Groups