Good article from Carl Trueman's archive. The article was originally a response to Reformed Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke's claim that Christians risk being viewed as a cult if they do not embrace evolution, but he delves into others areas as well. Here is a sample, along with a link to the entire article.
"To be blunt, those Christians who (rightly) point out that we live in a post-Christian, post-Christendom era, cannot have their cake and eat it. Being regarded as a cult was the flip side of the apostolic church coin. Standing against the dominant culture by believing that Jesus is Lord and that God has raised him from the dead made the church a cult; and these claims will always be regarded as indicative of a cult mentality by the wider secular world. Do not, therefore, gleefully proclaim the death of Christendom and at the same time lament the fact that we are in danger of being perceived as a cult. History, biblical and otherwise, indicates that such a posture is incoherent."
--Carl Trueman, "Life on the Cultic Fringe," http://www.reformation21.org/articles/life-on-the-cultic-fringe.php
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