Foursquare Church- Is it a cult?

My buddy invited me to attend his church this morning. It is a Foursquare Church. Wonder if anyone knows if this is a cult of some kind....
It was started by a woman named Aimee Semple McPherson back in 1928.

Go to a Foursquare. Maybe a few times. It is not a cult. It is lined up with scripture more so than other main stream churches. I really think you should not have judgement until you have more understanding of God. Then you will be able to answer the question, "Is the Foursquare Church a cult or whatever else. God bless you.

I agree, I believe Dr. Jack Hayford (the aging, main guy in the modern foursquare movement) is a really amazing guy. He might almost be considered as a modern day apostle, bridging many divides....he embraces teachings about christians being "equipped", yes, he goes kinda too far in the area of "deliverance from demons"---but then again, there seems to be a lot of demonized individuals out there coming to the Foursquare for "cleansing"- some of it is real,but also some people with mental illness or vivid imaginations.....
The Foursquare churches vary, some place more emphasis on extraordinary stuff than others. They are "right wingers", and tolerance for liberal views is not appreciated. But if you get to know them, they are just like everyone else, and many of them do some very nice things for their fellow man. There is a lot of good to be said about this organization and it's people....
They are no better and no holier than other groups, they are probably right-on with many things, such as Jesus Christ, but off based in other non essential areas. I love my Foursquare bretheren.......

My buddy invited me to attend his church this morning. It is a Foursquare Church. Wonder if anyone knows if this is a cult of some kind....
It was started by a woman named Aimee Semple McPherson back in 1928.


They're a Holy Spirit type church -- probably -- so they will speak in tongues, roll on the floor, etc.

I've know several of these peeps -- they're all right; they tend to be legalists, however.

Not particularly. They have some "weird" aspects, the whole pentecostal singing, talking in tongues thing, and they're more likely to play rejiggered rock songs with christian lyrics, but it depends on where you're at, which region, which church.

IMO, they seemed pretty loosely tied together compared to other protestant churchs, such as methodist, nazarene, baptist, etc. That has it's good aspects (they aren't walking lockstep off a cliff), and it's bad aspects (there's little oversight, so various churches may get pretty far off the reservation before anyone notices).

They do tend to focus on a younger crowd, and that has the usual cult dangers, as does anything where you have an overabundance of relatively young, naive, spiritually clueless people overwhelming and too dependent on a smaller number of older, wiser, more learned folks. Ideally things should be balanced, so the old-timers don't get stale, and the younger folks don't fly off on some strange tangent due to a lack of understanding, or a poor interpretation.

But on the whole, the church has it's oddities, but it's no more a cult than any of the other bizarre churches out there.

My buddy invited me to attend his church this morning. It is a Foursquare Church. Wonder if anyone knows if this is a cult of some kind....
It was started by a woman named Aimee Semple McPherson back in 1928.


They're a Holy Spirit type church -- probably -- so they will speak in tongues, roll on the floor, etc.

I've know several of these peeps -- they're all right; they tend to be legalists, however.

No but the clothes they wear are pretty boring.

Foursquare is a masonic term.

The Foursquare Church is associated more with the British Israel Cultish theology and the Rothschild Illuminati agenda of One World Government with Israel in control

friends,

I attended a Foursquare church for a while and found it to be slightly cultish.

They kicked one guy out of their church because he liked to party and have sex with girls. Kicking someone out of church because they're a sinner is against everything i believe.

i also had a guy tell me that I needed to go to just their church and shouldn't attend the other churches I attend. That same guy seemed to look down on Baptist Worship and seemed to think their church's Worship is better.

There also seems to be beliefs and practices pertaining to Spiritual gifts in this particular church I was at, that seem to be slightly contrary to things I have read in 1 Corinthians.

I'm not saying these people are wrong, but I am saying that many of their practices are contrary to what I believe.

Foursquare is a masonic term.

YES!! There is a Four Square not far from my house. They've come to my door to "witness" to me. Bunch of freakin' nutbags!! One starts speaking in tongues while the other translates. WTF??? Get the fuck away from my front door! Loons, all of them!