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Entertainment-style Christianity vs. Interactive-style Christianityby Sandy Simpson Today, in a majority of churches, we see the result of the seeker-friendly, "purpose-driven", church growth, Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation methods and teachings and their product I am calling "Entertainment-style Christianity" (ESC). But ESC churches are not only missing out on the cutting edge of true Christianity, but are heading down the road to apostasy. True biblical Christianity is "interactive". Those in ESC are taught to be spectators at mega-church entertainment events. They are not taught the Bible but rather to be enamored with the oratorical skills of the preacher, and to not dare question anything that is shoved down the throats of the "laity" by the ruling "anointed" elite. They are treated to a circus atmosphere including wild CCM music with people flailing around and acting like they are on drugs, to preachers who tell endless stories about themselves and joke about everything while actually making profundity mundane, to hula dancing, to banners and marching in the church and around it, to the blowing of shofars, to slain in the spirit and wild manifestations. Theirs ears are tickled by guest speakers who make up sermons out of their own imaginations instead of the written Word. They are entertained with gold dust, gold fillings, "angel" feathers, "angel" footprints, drunk in the spirit antics, and during these displays they can go out and get a latte and a snack at the church snack bar. They come into these mega churches and leave without being personally challenged other than with tired worldly psychology, and without anyone being able to find out what they are doing in their private lives. A small percentage attend "cell groups" where they are diapraxed into consensus instead of challenged to be Bereans and think and act for themselves. They live like the world during the week, then come to church where the world is not only welcomed but accommodated.
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Agnes Sanford was also a mentor to Richard Foster. Foster, a former Quaker who relied on the "inner light." Dave Hunt and Tom McMahon in Occult Invasion quotes Richard Foster who wrote, " I have been greatly helped in my understanding of the value of the imagination in praying for others by Agnes Sanford .... This advice. [of] prayer through the imagination . . . pictur[ing] the healing ... and much more, was given to me by Agnes Sanford . (Foster, Celebration, pp. 36.136.) Foster endorsed Sanford and her books and wrote I have discovered her to be an extremely wise and skillful counselor in these matters" and calls her book The Healing Gifts of the Spirit "an excellent resource " (Celebration of Discipline, 1978, p. 136, footnote 1). An entire chapter by Sanford is found in his book Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home and another chapter by her in Spiritual Disciplines. Sanford delved deeply into New Thought, Jungian psychology, and other dangerous fields. She said that she got her doctrine of a "spiritual body" within the physical body from New Thought teacher Emmet Fox (Sealed Orders, p. 115; quoted by Berean Call).
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Letter to the Editor: Native Shaman Rituals Being Used in Mission in Canada
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at Lighthouse Trails, 1/29/21
Thanks so much for your ministry; your newsletters have been very informative and a blessing to read. For the past three years, we have been involved in a church ministry in __________, Canada which includes outreach to the Native population. I have found that many in the mission are using or condoning Native shaman rituals in their meetings, such as drumming; using a talking/prayer stick; eagle feathers; participating in sharing circles; smudging; water ceremonies; prayer circles; healing circles, etc. Some have dream catchers in their homes and vehicles, and some have also attended the sweat lodge ceremonies in the Native community. I found all this very disturbing and have shared with a few at length, but to no avail; hence the copies I have ordered of Muddy Waters in the hopeful prayer that they might accept Scriptural correction from the author, a Cree Woman, who speaks from personal experience.
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at Christian Research Network, 2/1/2
(Protestia) Hillsong Church is gearing up to meet their financial maker, becoming the defendants in a series of lawsuits over breaches of contract and damages, according to a series of recently filed suits against the scandal-ridden Australian megachurch. On this side of the pond, Hillsong's Connecticut plant is being sued by The Wall Street Theater Company. Hillsong rented the theater from them for their weekly Sunday church service at a cost of nearly $6000 a month.... They signed a fresh lease a few months before the pandemic hit, and then when the world went sideways, sought to take advantage of the agreement's 120-day termination clause. The theater agreed, but the clause to exit the lease was $100,899.25, which Hillsong refused to pay. Connecticut doesn't have a pandemic-related moratorium on commercial rent payment that many states do, and so Hillsong would be liable for it. The suit alleges that Hillsong acted in an "immoral way" and also stole electronic equipment from them.
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