Jul 22, 2015
The New Age Then and Now
- Acts 19
A brief overview of Acts
19:1-27
We live in a world that is hostile
to the biblical Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So too, many of us have
experienced growing hostility from non-Christians and from apostate
Christian churches that have become theologically offensive to
Jesus Christ. This audio message considers various topics in the
Christian missions life, cross-cultural work, spiritual warfare,
and the biblical injunction to confront teachings that are hostile
to biblical revelation.
Topics
mentioned:
- Boldly reasoning, speaking, and
persuading individuals to repent of sin and believe in the biblical
Gospel, instead of ecumenical Interfaith “dialogue.”
- The danger of Occult healing arts, lying signs and wonders, and
demonic manifestation and possession states that deceptively
mislead people under the guise of being "gifts of the Holy
Spirit."
- The problem of New Age and ecumenical Christian churches engaging
in dialogue and alleged “Gay Christian” workshops.
Teachings and people
mentioned:
New Thought Metaphysics (Warren Felt
Evans, Phineas Quimby), Christianized Metaphysics for Evangelical
Ecumenism (Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuller), Mormonism
(Brigham Young, Joseph Smith), Evolutionism, Hinduism, Yogi’s,
Theosophy and Occultism (Helena P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant), Mind
Science Cults (Christian Science - May Baker Eddy), Guru’s (The
Beatles and the Hare Krishna cult), Modern Occultism (George
Gurdjeiff), Theosophical Society (Helena P. Blavatsky, Annie
Besant, Nicholas Roerich), Spiritism, Spiritualism and Christian
Spiritualism (Moses Hull), Rudolph Steiner (Anthroposophy and the
Anthroposophical Society), Rosicrucian Movement (Max Heindel and
the Order of the Rose Cross), Unity School of Christianity (Charles
and Myrtle Fillmore), Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth
Claire Prophet), Science of Mind and Religious Science (Ernest
Holmes), Religious Science (Terry Cole Whitaker), The Sleeping
Prophet (Edgar Cayce), George Baker (aka “Father Divine”),
Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard), Erhard Seminars Training (Werner Hans
Erhard), Foundation of Human Understanding (Roy Masters), The Silva
Method (Jose Silva), The Aquarian Conspiracy (Marilyn Ferguson),
The Master Plan (Alice Bailey), Unitarianism (Richard Buckminster
"Bucky" Fuller), Templeton Prize (John Marks Templeton, Bill Bright
and Charles Colson), Word of Faith Movement (Prosperity Gospel -
Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Marilyn Hickey, Oral
Roberts), and more.
Recorded 06-30-1999, San Luis Obispo,
California.
Chris Lawson
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