Author: Steven Lambert

Delineated and defined in this article are some of the signs and symptoms, or common characteristics, of hyper-authoritarian groups, churches, networks, and ministries. Often, these are the symptoms of a church or group laboring under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership is dominating, controlling, and manipulating their followers, and exploiting them for their own personal gain and private kingdom-building. Wholesale abuse and misuse of authority is an integral part of the very foundation, fabric, and functions of such groups. Culturally and systemically, such “churches” are nothing more than demonic “Charismatic” cults, regardless of the modernized name of their organization, the Mission and Faith Statements on their website, the worldly hypnotizing and mind-numbing so-called “worship,” aimed at alluring the spiritually naive, and the spiritual-sounding jargon comprising their group-speak.