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At a workshop at the DST convention Bishop Vashti MacKenzie posed these questions for you to determine if the organization you belong too will interfere in your relationship with God. If you can answer no to all of these questions, then the organization is not a threat nor a hinderance to your beliefs and sprituality, and by the same token it is not to be the vehicle for your religious fulfillment.

1. Does the organization violate the final authority resided in our Lord, Savior Jesus Christ?
2. Does the organization have a plan of Salvation?
3. Does the organization teach Salvation other than Jesus Christ or against Salvation through Jesus Christ?
4. Is its Constitution and By-Laws teachings contrary to the rules of God?
5. Does it require its members to believe in a Supreme being or to obey a Supreme being?
6. Does it fit Webster's definition of religion?
7. Does the organization worship God as creator and ruler?
8. Does the organization teach that it is the one and only true religion?
9. Does the organization reject Christianity or God? (this one may not be worded exactly right.)
10 Does the organization name other god's in it's prayers and rituals?
11. Does the organization prohibit discussion of God?
12. Does the organization bestow divine titles on it's leaders?
13. Does the organization condemn the Bible?

ETA: Thank you to my soror on the DELTAnet for posting them there.