Why are you classified as a cult?

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In a message dated 97-05-09 21:35:55 EDT, you write:

<<  God didn't call us to *straighten everybody out*. Paul says we
 are to "examine ourselves" to see if we are in the Faith. We're not to
 examine our neighbor. >>

James 5:19-20
19	Brethren, if any *of you* do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20	Let him know, that he which *converteth* the sinner *from the error of his
way* shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
(KJV)


Acts 18:24-26
24	And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and
*mighty in the scriptures*, came to Ephesus.
25	This man was *instructed in the way of the Lord*; and being fervent in the
spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, *knowing only
the baptism of John*.
26	And he began to *speak boldly* in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and
Priscilla had *heard*, they *took him unto them*, and expounded *unto him*
the way of God *more perfectly*.
(KJV)


Rom 15:14
14	And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full
of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to *admonish one another*.
(KJV)



ADMONITION, ADMONISH 

	1. noutheteo ^3560^, cf. the noun above, means "to put in mind, admonish,"
<Acts 20:31> (KJV, "warn"); <Rom. 15:14>; <1 Cor. 4:14> (KJV, "warn"); <Col.
1:28> (KJV, "warning"); <Col. 3:16; 1 Thes. 5:12,14> (KJV, "warn"); <2 Thes.
3:15>.
	It is used, (a) of *instruction*, (b) of *warning*. 

(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words)
(Copyright (C) 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers)

admonishing (instructing, warning) (one another), 
converting (one another) from the error of our ways, 
expounding (to another) the way of God more perfectly.........

Sounds like "straightening one another out" to me!