Just the other day I posted that Christians should be wary of God “experiences.” Although there are many prominent promoters of practices
that claim to be ways to hear directly from God (other than by reading
the Bible), it is my fear that these are really paths toward
self-deception or worse.
As a follow up I’d like to share my thoughts about a book whose
author purports to have received messages from God (which she turned
into a bestselling book).
A couple months ago I was given a devotional book called Jesus Calling,
and although I never read devotionals I began to examine the book. What
I found shocked me. The author, Sarah Young, claims to have received
revelations from Jesus through dialogue journaling (something she
learned from two “listeners” who wrote another book called God Calling.
I’ll get to that in a minute). Her book is even written as if Jesus is
speaking those messages directly to the reader, which I personally think
borders (or crosses into) blasphemy.
Alarm bells began to clang in my head.
Young writes that a year after reading that book, God Calling,
“I began to wonder if I, too, could receive messages during my times of
communing with God. I had been writing in prayer journals for years,
but that was one-way communication: I did all the talking. I knew that
God communicated with me through the Bible, but I yearned for more…” Continue at Julia
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