After leaving our home church after 7 years, my husband and I felt inexpressibly wounded by a church that wish to “give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.” Who’s coffee-house sermons had begun to “tell them what their itching ears want to hear.”
They define themselves as a post-modern church, or post-christian church, that believe that truth bends as new information comes in and subscribe to Rob Bell’s theology that those who believe that Scripture is God-breathed and the only worthy blue-print by which to live are “warped and toxic.”
My husband and I confronted them on this issue, one of MANY that were contrary to the Word, and we were told that if we didn’t like it, we could leave. So, we did, and have been church shopping ever since. As we have done so, we have begun to unearth the wide-spread danger of a new deception that has taken over the church and is “deceiving, if possible, the elect.” It is called contemplative spirituality. Known by many other names, it blends eastern mysticism with Christianity, and you come out with a Nephalim-hybrid. I began to blog and interact with an online community, operated by the ministry Lighthouse Trails, who seek to expose this new spirituality (Think New Age), and I was reminded of a VERY important Scripture:
1 Kings 19:18 “Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”
What a promise! God has indeed reserved a remnant. I have not yet come across a church that has not begung to dabble in this practice, afterall, it is seeped in many large ministries and ministry leaders (Beth Moore, Max Lucado, Rick Warren, Brian McLaren, etc.) and my husband and I have struggled feeling like we are alone. But I know for a fact I have very close friends that know much about this and are trying to fight it in their own churches. Yet, a remnant is just that, a remnant. We’re not talking about a large group here, and it will surely dwindle as we move ever closer to His glorious appearing.
Scripture tells us that the road to desctruction is wide and many will enter that gate, but narrow the road and the gate that leads to eternal life and FEW will find it. I am seeing that come true. Many are falling away thanks to this new practice of syncretism. God promises us in the book of Zephaniah that He will wipe from the face of the earth those that practice syncretism.
Be warned!
Will you be part of this remnant?
http://www.mom4truth.com/the- emerging- spirituality/
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