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Personality Cults: Gwen Shamblin, Kevin Samuels, and Why You Shouldn’t Take Advice From Grifters
So, I have a thing with advice. I don’t shun it, but I take it with a grain of salt. That’s interesting coming from me, a person who likes to give advice, and who sometimes writes articles giving it. A caveat is that I will be the first person to tell you that I do not write, or give advice, to change minds, or hearts, or lives. I don’t take advice from others to have my mind changed: or my heart or life. I’m cynical like that. I have only read one book that actually changed my life and that’s The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz.
I’m also a Christian, but I haven’t attended church every Sunday in years. That’s not a good thing or a bad thing, just a fact. While I do read my Bible daily and listen to sermons weekly, I do not think it’s necessary to go to church weekly. That’s a point of contention amongst a lot of Christians, even though I think it’s absolutely nothing wrong with attending church however many times a week you like.
However, I do have a problem with churches that center the preacher. You know those churches where the preacher is worshipped more than God. He or she becomes an absolute authority and even something like a deity. These churches are more like a cult than anything else, and these preachers…
