The more I think about the book "Jesus Calling" the more amazed I am at how such things fly under the radar in Christian settings. How did I overlook it the first time I encountered it? How was it only a vague sense of a red flat the second time? Why did it take hearing a number of people experienced with such things before I too came to see it as a demonic counterfeit?
Sad to say I think a lot of it is spiritual dullness brought about by a way too casual attitude to sins of various kinds. Sin dulls the siritual senses. their sharpness can be regained but it takes some effortt and self-denial for that.
But I think in many cases it's a problem of Bible illiteracy. Great numbers of people are drawn to these counterfeits from within the Church. Maybe many of them aren't savedb but at least they are not likiely to be very knowledgeable about the bible. How such enormous numbers could fill a whole stadium to listen to a Beth Moore or a Joel Osteen is hard to explain unless most of them really aren't Christians in the sense of being born again. the same must be true of those enormous numbers who gobble up the false teachings of a Jewsus Calling or the Shack and that sort of thing.
I realized recently that the method of wriing Jesus Calling is the same as that for A Course in Miracles. It starts out something like "This is a Coure in Miracles, Please take Notes" and it's supposedly dictated by "Jesus." "Jesus Calling" is compared by the critics to a New Age book called "God Calling" but it's just as much related to "A Course in Miracles" and probably also many other channeled demonic writingsa that may not use the name Jesus.
But of course the name Jesus would have a special attractiveness to people with a Christiian identity, a vague and compromised Christian identity anyway. Those who live a strong Christian life and know the bible are a lot less likely to be attracted to this sort of thing.
Weak preachin has to have a lot to do with this too.
this Church needs rescuing.
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