What?
The Lord Our Righteousness Church, sometimes called the Strong City Cult, is a Christian community near Travesser Park, Union County, New Mexico. Its origins are in a group of about eighty adherents who migrated to the area from Sandpoint, Idaho in 2000. In 2008, the community consists of approximately fifty people. The men have beards and the women wear long denim skirts, and reportedly mix well with the local people.
(Sources from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Our_Righteousness_Church)
Who?
Its leader, Wayne Bent, born May 18, 1941, is known as Michael Travesser within the church. Bent, once a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, left his denomination with a group of followers in 1987 and has since referred to that church as one of the "daughters of great harlot" condemned in the book of Revelation. Bent claims that during an experience in his living room in March 2000, God told him, "You are Messiah." Bent has since asserted, "I am the embodiment of God. I am divinity and humanity combined."
(Sources from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Our_Righteousness_Church)
这位自称为弥赛亚（救主）的“牧师”，迷惑了不少民众成为教友。问题就出在这些民众对耶稣基督的认识太少，甚至是因为他们对耶稣存有太多错误的认识。今天有多少信徒不单不喜爱阅读圣经，反而偏爱（专爱）某些讲员所传的种种论调？这是教会的一个危机，我并不是主张教会单单读圣经而不需要牧师，但是试问一个只听牧师而不认真阅读、查考圣经的教会，如何真正辨识、抵挡异端？
以下是一则有关这“牧师”的新闻（取自 http://a.abcnews.com/US/Story?id=4796801&page=1）
A self-described Messiah was arrested on sex charges involving minors two weeks after state officials took three teenagers from his New Mexico compound amid allegations of sexual abuse, authorities in New Mexico confirmed to ABC News today...(Continue)
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