Having spent nearly 40 years in “Christianized” New Age practices
within the walls of the church, I find it interesting that if you ask
most Christians, to this day, what New Age consists of; to define it,
they are pretty much at a total loss. One reason that they are at a loss
is that the church has been conditioned over the years to dismiss the
term New Age, instead opting for more acceptable words, most likely for
fear that the people would go running for their tin hats. Using flowery
rhetoric for the term New Age allows people to let down their guard
against New Age teachings. In my estimation, I think we should all come
clean – use the term, for that’s what we have.
Personally, I don’t find it alarming or surprising that we now have
‘The First Church of The New Age’ on every corner and in every corner
of the world. I look back to my beginnings in the church and although
the practice of New Age was a kind of fringe movement at the time,
being the late ’60′s, early ’70′s, would soon explode into mainline
denominations.
I found an article that I wanted to share, written in 2005 by Sandy
Simpson entitled New Age/Mysticism in the Church that takes us through
New Age teachings. Keep in mind that this was written in ’05. How far
the apostate church has come since then! I thought this list and
explanation would be helpful to those that have a hard time defining
just what New Age teachings are and at the same time puts the correct
name, New Age, to these teachings. To the point article, I like that.
As Dick Sutphen says in “Infiltrating the New Age into Society”
“One
of the biggest advantages we have as New Agers is, once the occult,
metaphysical and New Age terminology is removed, we have concepts and
techniques that are very acceptable to the general public. So we can
change the names… demonstrate the power… open the door to millions who
normally would not be receptive.” (Summer 1986 issue of “What Is.” Magazine. p.14) Source
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