A Happy Healthy Church: Devotions From Time of Grace MinistrySample

GROWTH: TIME FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE Every couple of years there's a hot new religious trend that comes along and gets a lot of media attention. Think of the Beatles with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi or Madonna with her Kabbalah mysticism or John Travolta and Kirstie Alley with Scientology. Perhaps people in your family have been drawn to Zen or meditation--or maybe you yourself are fascinated with New Age spirituality. There are not many truths. There is one. There are not many gods. There is One. God calls all competition idols and quietly promises to destroy them all, as well as all who worship them. This is serious business--Satan uses false gods to lure spiritually-minded people away from the Lord to their deaths. God loves you enough to give you his Word, and he gives you also teachers and pastors and mentors and Christian friends and family to keep you anchored in that Word. Here's how it benefits you: "Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming" (Ephesians 4:14).