Scott Tibbs
We will all worship something, so worship the only true God.
By Scott Tibbs, February 14, 2024
Recently, a church here in Bloomington found itself in a major scandal. In a bizarre ritual, the church leadership forced prospective members to drink large amounts of communion wine. The prospective members were physically abused and humiliated. People need to stay far away from this "church," which is more accurately described as a cult. They have perverted the Gospel for their own leaders' depraved ends.
I snookered you. It was not a church, but a fraternity at Indiana University. But I led this article with a fictionalized account to make you think: What if a church behaved the same way as a rogue fraternity? What if a church required prospective members to submit themselves to physical abuse and engage in bizarre rituals? Pretty much everyone would describe that "church" as a cult. So why is a fraternity not a cult when it engages in the same behavior?
Yes, some of this is simple bullying and sadism. But we should not ignore the spiritual background to what is happening here. People have subjected themselves to abuse for millennia for their "gods." Men have given their wives and allowed themselves to be cucked by cult leaders, people have subjected themselves to abuse, and people have even burned their own children to death to please the demons Baal and Molech. And the young men being abused are willing to go through abuse from the fraternity in order to be part of something bigger than themselves.
This is an evangelistic opportunity for the Church, to show a better way to lost men searching for belonging. Rather than forcing young men to be abused, the Church serves a God who gave Himself up for our sins. The Lord does not require us to drink so much alcohol that we are at the edge of death. God only requires that we believe in Him and accept His Son as our Lord and Savior. We do not need to be abused, because He took all of the abuse for us. He took the punishment that we deserved.
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