Dead Men Walking Podcast: Steven Bancarz on how New Age has infiltrated the American church

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So there's some Errors in the way in which we approach these issues as a church where we've departed from sola scriptura, essentially

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And now usefulness is our rule of faith and practice as well pragmatism. Yeah So I would say those are the ways it's primarily leaking into the church

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I would say another way it's leaking into the church is through an obsession with experience Just for the sake of having an experience

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I think that Experiences are afforded to us in the Christian life and thankfully so the

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Christian walk is experiential I was just listening to Paul Washer today He said we should be praying for the manifestations of the spirit the outpourings of the spirit and the

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Christian life should be a supernatural Life I agree with him wholeheartedly But the problem is when you start

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Using the name of Jesus as a springboard to get to something. That's not him

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Right, right So what you're really after is a feeling on your skin what you're really after it is an altered state of consciousness or a spiritual high or a spiritual buzz and So you're not seeking the

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Son of God anymore and you're not content with the Trinity you're using the name of God and you're using the Trinity as a stepping stone to get to Something you want more than him namely an altered state of consciousness or a spiritual high

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And so the name of Jesus goes from being a Yeah, it goes from being a proclamation of his lordship and his deity to being a mantra

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We chant to induce altered states of consciousness or to induce some extraordinary spiritual state