from Christian Research Service:
For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. -Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 9:16
Years ago, a Christian strolled into a Christian bookstore, browsed the many shelves of reading materials, and noticed M. Scott Peck’s book, The Road Less Traveled on a special display. He began thumbing through its pages.
The book might be a good read, thought the Christian. After all, it has its own special display and is on the Best Seller list. So, It must be okay.
But as the Christian soon learned, The Road Less Traveled wasn’t okay, for within its pages he found that:
M. Scott Peck (now deceased) was a bonafide New Ager and taught that “God wants us to become Himself (or Herself or Itself). We are growing toward God. God is the goal of evolution” (p. 270); that “we can define spiritual growth as the growth or evolution of consciousness” (p. 280); and that “to put it plainly, our unconscious is God. God within us. We are part of God all the time. God has been with us all along, is now, and always will be” (p.281).
Peck’s statements disturbed the Christian. Equally disturbing was that the book was being advertised and promoted within a Christian bookstore.
It wasn’t necessary for the Christian to purchase and read the entire book to know it was New Age blasphemy, and extremely dangerous to the spiritual welfare of the believer. All it took was a few statements.
But when the statements were pointed out to the bookstore manager, the manager returned the book to its special display. The manager maintained that The Road Less Traveled was a runaway success…It helped pay the bills and draw customers into the store…Many professing Christians loved it.
“Just pick out the good and throw away the bad,” said the manager.
As the Christian walked out of the bookstore he replied, “True Christians don’t believe they can evolve into God, nor do they refer to God as ‘her’ or ‘it.’ A New Age ‘god’ can’t save anyone.”
The Christian bookstore manager shrugged his shoulders, and waited on a customer browsing the special display for The Road Less Traveled.
For the discerning Christian, sometimes all it takes is one sentence, one paragraph, or one page out of the book or article to know something is wrong.
While Todd Bentley’s latest book, Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life, doesn’t term God as a “her” or “it,” or state that “God is the goal of evolution,” it does, however, contain his latest endeavor to spread his version of the gospel of the kingdom–which the reader will soon learn is a false gospel. . . . .
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Todd is a spirit of this world that will culminate in the one world church through which the beast will rise to power during the tribulation period. False prophets of today and their teaching unfortuneatly have believers listening to parts of their message.
Spiritual condition is emphasized in the letters to churches. The one world church which will help the Antichrist rise to power in the Tribulation Period is addressed in the letter to the church at Laodicea. Present day professing Christians are a product of the spirit of the Antichrist. By their earthly religion they are promoting the one world church which will help the Beast rise to power.
Jesus distinguishes between a Christian possessing His life and one who merely professes Him with their mouth. Many people who are professing Christians are trusting in their works. In our study of the letters we will see that the professing believers will be spit out of the mouth of Jesus. They will be spit out of this age of grace, miss the rapture of the church and enter into the Tribulation Period. In the Tribulation Period they will be tested as to their allegiance to God or the world. They will submit to either Jesus or the Beast. The testing period will be of a severity such as has never before been experienced on the earth.
It would have been much easier for the professing Christian to have repented and possessed the life of Christ prior to the rapture of the Church. Jesus many times warns the reader to examine himself and to meditate on the scriptures which question his willingness to obey. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” (Rev 2:29) It is important for us to note that in the midst of the most fiery congregations there will those who are cold. In the midst of the coldest congregation there will be those whose hearts are on fire for Jesus. Each person will give an account for themselves for their works here on earth.