Volume Twenty Three, Issue Two
10/04/08
Volume 23, Issue 2
"DECEPTION IN THE CHURCH" e-Newsletter
10/4/08
Dear All,
I am currently working on a DVD series on some of the teachings and background of the Emerging Church movement. I will also be working on another Emerging Church project in December. I have just finished my Bible study of 1 Corinthians and plan to teach 2 Corinthians as well. I also am finished preparing a two-part series on the false prophecies of the New Apostolic Reformation sent out by ElijahList. There is a lot of error, and in some cases heresy, that need to be addressed in the churches today. One thing that struck me in preparing for talking about the Emerging Church is that fact that so many of it's leadership have been given access to many top Christian colleges today. Leonard Sweet is one among these traveling Emergent/New Age gurus. LEONARD SWEET (Author of Quantum Spirituality and Emerging Church leader) Sweet calls this the Theory of Everything. This theory not only says that all creation is connected but that it is all inhabited with Divinity (God). (Leonard Sweet, Quantum Spirituality, comment by Tim Wirth, http://simplyagape.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html) Here are just a few quotes from him:
"Fourth, New Light embodiment means to be 'in connection' and 'information' with other faiths. To be in-formation means to know each other’s songs almost as well as one knows them oneself, and to enlarge the community to include those whose conceptions of God differ from ours in form. To be in connection means to be able to sing, not only selected stanzas, but all the verses" … "One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim--people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us)--without assumption of superiority and power."(Leonard Sweet, Quantum Spirituality, p. 129-130)
A surprisingly central feature of all the world's religions is the language of light in communicating the divine and symbolizing the union of the human with the divine: Muhammed's light-filled cave, Moses' burning bush, Paul's blinding light, Fox's "inner light," Krishna's Lord of Light, Bohme's light-filled cobbler shop, Plotinus' fire experiences, Bodhisattvas with the flow of Kundalini's fire erupting from their fontanelles, and so on." (Leonard Sweet, Quantum Spirituality, P. 235)
Now can anyone who calls himself/herself an Evangelical explain to me why this man has been permitted to brainwash Christian college students across America? Better check the school your kids attend to make sure they are learning the truth, not demonic lies like those above.
In Christ,
Sandy Simpson
Apologetics Coordination Team
http://www.apologeticscoordinationteam.com/
The feature article for this newsletter is The
Shameful Social Gospel by McMahon, T.A., August 27, 2008.
Christians certainly can be--and have been--wonderfully involved in
humanitarian efforts as witnesses of the love of Christ. Titus 2:14 indicates
that those who are saved are to be "zealous of good works." Ephesians 2:10
tells us that Christians have been saved "unto good works." However, that
witness can be quickly compromised as it accommodates man's way of accomplishing
man's objectives rather than following the Scriptures. Furthermore, there
is not a hint from the life of Christ or the acts of the apostles of any
model or organized program for the church directed at eradicating poverty,
disease, environmental abuse, ignorance, etc.--all symptoms of the sin
condition of the world and the sin nature of mankind. The gospel is mankind's
only hope. Therefore, anything that does not conform to the biblical gospel
and to the truth of the Word of God in attempting to aid mankind, no matter
how sincere, is a disservice of eternal proportions leading to dreadful
consequences. Jesus warned those who in His name believed they had "done
many wonderful works" yet not according to "the will of my Father which
is in heaven": "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:21-23).
Through the years I have been presented with many opportunities to forgive. Sometimes the situation was so severe that it took me some time to forgive and start the process of healing for myself, and eventually for others. I learned that a Christian needs to forgive other people even if they have not repented of their sins. That can be really hard if we let it be hard. But if we give our burdens over to the Lord, He will carry them and that frees us up to treat other people with love, compassion, and be in the right frame of mind and heart to set them up for reconciliation with Jesus Christ. That does not mean we tolerate their sin. We simply forgive them for what they have done to us, whether perceived or real, and move on to looking for ways to redeem them. We can then present to them the “truth in love” even when we have to rebuke them.
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