(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire) Two books, and the 12 Step movement. Beloved by many in the church, yet utterly deceptive. Are the three connected in some way?
…so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. 2 Corinthians 2:11
Warren B. Smith notes that God Calling is “the channeled book that inspired Sarah Young to try and receive her own personal messages from Jesus.” [1] Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling is an immensely popular book, through which a false, contemplative “Christ” continues to spread.
The channeled book God Calling can be seen as the spiritual parent of Jesus Calling, but God Calling also greatly influenced Alcoholics Anonymous. This began with the Oxford Group, an ecumenical movement of the 1930s. Both A.A.’s co-founders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, attended O.G. meetings, and Alcoholics Anonymous itself came out of the Oxford Group.
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Sarah Young and her book Jesus Calling.
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