Here, then, is the crucial question which we have been leading up to. Have we ever opened our door to Christ? Have we ever invited Him in? This was exactly the question which I needed to have put to me. For, intellectually speaking, I had believed in Jesus all my life, on the other side of the door. I had regularly struggled to say my prayers through the key-hole. I had even pushed pennies under the door in a vain attempt to pacify Him. I had been baptized, yes and confirmed as well. I went to church, read my Bible, had high ideals, and tried to be good and do good. But all the time, often without realizing it, I was holding Christ at arm’s length, and keeping Him outside. I knew that to open the door might have momentous consequences. I am profoundly grateful to Him for enabling me to open the door. Looking back now over more than fifty years, I realize that that simple step has changed the entire direction, course and quality of my life.
John Stott

New Age The Practical View

New Age The Practical View

New Age: The Practical View
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Among the various mechanisms and means devised over the years as a vehicle for world government, the latest is the New Age Movement. While claiming to be the “new spirituality, ” the New Age only offers the same, worn-out old cliches about peace, love , higher selves, and lower living that have accompanied malcontents from Plato until now.

Redistributing the wealth of others may beat working productively, but such dreams do not happen naturally; they must be imposed from the top downward. This oppression from above is the real momentum behind New Age “flowers.”

DOCUMENTATION; The New American, October 12, 1987

…Ideologically, those involved in the New Age Movement are invariably to the left in the political spectrum.

…Though its roots go back several centuries, the New Age Movement, with its heavy leftist tilt, is clearly linked to the radicalism of the 1960’s.

…The New Age Movement is basically collectivist in its politics.

(New Ager Marilyn) Ferguson quotes political scientist Melvin Gurtov approvingly: “The new person creates the new collectivity and what the new collectivity creates — is — the new politics.”… On the issues of foreign policy and national security, the New Age Movement lines up squarely with the Soviet-dominated peace movement …. Finally, the New Age Movement is strongly committed to globalism. Throughout the movement’s literature there is hostility toward nationalism and an emphasis on “planetary consciousness.”

Marilyn Ferguson declares: “All
countries are economically and ecologically involved with each other, politically enmeshed. The old gods of isolationism and nationalism are tumbling, artifacts like the stone deities of Easter Island.”….Futurist Alvin Toffler also envisions his “new civilization” as a global one:”…

This consciousness is shared by
multinational executives, long-haired environmental campaigners, financiers, revolutionaries, intellectuals, poets, and painters, not to mention members of the Trilateral Commission … And its appearance is seen as an evolutionary necessity — a step closer to a “cosmic consciousness” that would embrace the heavens as well.” .. Many in the New Age Movement see the United Nations as the foundation of such a new global order …

The New Age Movement is a significant political force that could determine the future. Freedom-loving Americans should not take lightly the implications of the following statement by Tom Hayden: “Those who filled the streets in the 60’s may yet fill the halls of government in the 80’s and if we do, I don’t believe we will forget our roots.”

Among the warnings to be found in the Bible is I Thessalonians 5:3: ” For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them …” This is the theme of the New Age. But, as we have seen, the New Age is merely “old tyranny, ” dressed-up in “new clothes.” Let Christians bear in mind that we know a tree by its fruit. Apart from Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace, no true peace will be found.

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