Pheobe - Romans 16 (Deacon)
Cornerstone does all of this while intentionally hiding behind the Gospel and routinely weaponizes theology to produce feelings of loathing, self-doubt, and learned helplessness both individually and corporately.
I have attended this church for about ten years now. The people in this church have constantly cared for my family over the years. They have pointed us to the Gospel over and over again. The pastors proclaim the Word of God every week and don't shy away from difficult passages. Relationships are real and deep. God has used this church to reveal his grace over and over!
The Office of Women Elders - Titus 2 (referred to as presbyters - ie Elders)
As expected of a cult, the leadership of the church (and the organization that it is affiliated with) practices intentional organized abuse and manipulation on a daily basis and carefully crafted a culture that does the same.
In the end, this church ends up being about church purity and and it's leadership as opposed to God or the Gospel. This fact is simply heartbreaking.
For example: This organization carefully prunes information it perceives as negative or dissenting. It's social media profile on Facebook is carefully scrubbed of perceived negative information and at this time has 65 reviews at a 4.8 of 5 rating. This is in stark contrast with Google reviews. The only reviews allowed on their Facebook page by the church that are not 5 or 4 stars are those which are void of content. They routinely delete or report anything perceived as negative.
When I was a freshman in college, I heard the gospel for the first time and soon became a Christian through this church. Being a member since 1991, I have seen this church mature and grow in humility, brokenness, and the fear of the Lord. I am grateful for the Lord's nearness to this church.
Additionally, this church formally and theologically views women as inferior to men and is intensely mysogininstic. It refuses to let women participate in any role that has any authority over any man. They are not even allowed to lead Bible studies that have any men in them. Women are not even allowed to head the church's women's ministry. This is a great example of intentionally annihilating truth. The scriptural precedent is clear:
There are many more examples throughout scripture, but, I encourage you to do your own study.
As someone who attended this Church for 11 years and a brother in Christ, I will not discourage you from visiting or attending Cornerstone, but, I warn you: be very careful.
Cornerstone is at the confluence of cult and Christianity, but, that is why it is so dangerous. This organization is a cult. Do not be fooled.
As Garry Kasparov stated: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
Cornerstone Church of Knoxville is a part of a religious organization named Sovereign Grace Churches (which recently changed its name from Sovereign Grace Ministries in order to restructure). This religious organization is officially registered and recognized as a cult by the Cult Education Institute (CEI). The CEI is a not for profit organization (who are long-standing members of the American Library Association) and are the forefront academic American authority of cult related news and activities.
The Office of Widow Eldership - Timothy 5
My family has been shown grace and the gospel through dark days and carefully directed back to God through faith alone, through Christ alone, based on the Word of God alone. Solid teaching. Sound doctrine. Joy in the Lord. Is what we have experienced in this body. On a side note, our pastors regularly pray from the pulpit for other church bodies and their pastors in our city and around the world. We are thankful.
Though what they do may seem wonderful and even miraculous in the beginning, do not be fooled. Their agenda is very secretive and in the long term, they will brainwash you through a slippery slope of slowly violating your conscience through various means of manipulation and and liberal love bombing in order to create an unending hype train of distraction and propaganda of ever shifting "critical issues." The cult then sports their truth claims through various testimonial fallacies that bank on the survivorship bias. Finally, Cornerstone then creates a desire to remain through the sunken cost fallacy which is enforced through gas lighting and double binding.
PS: Notice that the positive reviews use a lot of the same language. Members parrot each other's phrases and they don't mean what they seem to mean. Example: "No church is perfect" = "Dig a hole in the sand and insert your head.....nothing to see here...if I say things are great long enough, maybe I'll eventually believe it." How do I know? Because I spent 7 years of my life spouting off the same catch phrases. Be very careful and read between the lines.
People are very nice, but the organization this church is apart of is a cult. Run...don't walk...away. It'll take the rest of my life to sort through all the false teaching. If you're apart of CCK, and you see red flags, that creepy feeling in your gut is not "indwelling sin." It's your God-given conscience trying to tell you something! If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and smells like a duck...it's a DUCK! Get out and don't look back.
My heart goes out to the members of this church. There are many kind hearted and well meaning people there. Please keep them in your prayers.
Junia - Romans 16 (Apostle)
As in any cult, you must conform or you will be ostracised. In this, Cornerstone calls the Gospel "the main thing" and you need to keep it as they see fit or you will be publically shamed and formally weeded out through shunning and church discipline. They practice formal excommunication on 3-4 people/families per year.
There is more than meets the eye here. This church is not what it seems to be at first glance and is extremely misleading.
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