The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

There are controversial movements among the African American church and its community of believers (Acts 29:29, 30). The main thrust of alternative and new religious movements is its antithesis in creating something "new" that is antithetical to the whole of the Christian faith and that of the historic Christian church: that of innovative "ways" of doing church. By alternative and new religious movements in any religious group, cult, or heretical Christian movement that of its deviations from the "norm" of the Church's teachings through such self-proclaimed messianic leadership who claim some discovery of some "new found" truth that is outside the pale of biblical orthodoxy or that which was taught by the early apostles of the New Testament (Eph. 2:20; 2 Pet. 2:19-21). Such alternative and new religious movements ranging from that of the Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), self-appointed gur