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Lighthouse Trails Research Journal 17 This has just been a sampling of the hun- dreds of similar quotes found throughout the God Calling and Jesus Calling books. BNES’ 36-page “Training Manual for Mediums?— Quotations from the God Calling Books and the Jesus Calling Series”(which has over 800 quotes), documents the instances of the following words and terms found in those books, showing that they are repeated over and over and over again: Spend Time Alone | Sit in Silence | Sit Still | Open Your Hands | Breathe in Spirit | Repeat “Jesus” | Quiet Your Mind | Focus | Open Yourself | Invite | Feel the Presence | Absorb | Visualize “Jesus” | Listen | Think God Thoughts | Write If You Receive a Message | Transition | Channel Throughout the Day. BNES explains: “Sitting alone in a quiet place is a helpful way to pray or study the Bi- ble. Taking a break and relaxing is sometimes good for the human body. Yet these practices [in God Calling and the Jesus Calling books] are not taught in Scripture. They are taught instead by psychics as techniques for achieving a trance state for contacting spirit guides.” 4 Vatican Launches eRosary—continued from previous page that there is nothing seriously wrong with do it through the Gospel itself while cling- ing to our one true Savior, Jesus Christ, whom the world has rejected. Jesus Calling—continued from page 15 As the Holy Spirit controls your mind. (DJ p. 114) Be channels both of you. My Spirit shall flow through. (GC Jan 03) Just be channels. (GC Jul 22) My followers must be channels. (GE May 23) Be a channel of My Love, Joy, and Peace by listening to Me. (JC Oct 31) [A] living channel absorbs some of whatever flows through it. (JC Oct 16) I enable you . . . to be a channel through whom I comfort others. (JC Oct 16) I am training you . . . to be a channel of My loving Presence. (JC Mar 31) witnessed martyrs who would not bend on doctrinal issues concerning salvation, today, we are witnessing a paradigm shift from an emphasis on biblical doctrine to the experiential and the mystical. The consensus is becoming that it’s not so important what we believe anymore but what we do—namely that we need to experience God and get along with everyone. And this is where the Catholic Church comes in as it promotes oneness (a unifying of all religious traditions under the umbrella of the Catholic Church) and a vast array of religious practices stemming back to the Church fathers to satisfy the draw to the experiential. 6 With the new eRosary app, it is the am- bition of Pope Francis and the Vatican that many young straying Catholics will begin praying the rosary and thus, pledge their allegiance to Rome. And with Christian leaders like Beth Moore and Rick War- ren (who are followed by millions) doing their part to show the evangelical church VOLUME 8—NO. 1 linking arms with Rome, 7 maybe the eRo- sary will be attractive to evangelical young people as well. That is not as far fetched as it may sound to some. Catholic priest and mystic activist, Richard Rohr, said in an interview called “The Cosmic Christ” that one of his publishers told him his biggest audience was young evangelical men! 8 With that in mind, the eRosary may far exceed the Catholic Church’s expecta- tions in creating their “unity” and “peace” throughout the world. Only time will tell how well-received the eRosary will be; but, no doubt, it is another step toward a future described in the Bible as a time of great apostasy and “falling away.” It is so sad to see that today Protes- tants and evangelicals will go so far as to compromise the Gospel itself, while our forebears were willing to give up their lives for its soul-saving truth. Satan’s final effort is to deceive the whole world for the purpose of bringing vast destruction to the world and his own harvest of souls. Those who overcome will Chris Lawson is the director of Spiritual Research Network: www.spiritualresearch- network.com and the author of a number of Lighthouse Trails publications. ENDNOTES: 1. https://www.spiritualresearchnetwork. org/jesus-calling-mediums.html. 2. https://www.thomasnelson.com/blog/ tag/sarah-young. 3. https://www.spiritualresearchnetwork. org/uploads/6/8/4/7/68476655/jesus-calling- training-mediums_8.5x11kjv.pdf. 4. Ibid. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:11) ENDNOTES: 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world- europe-50081466. 2. https://churchpop.com/2019/10/17/ vatican-launches-smart-rosary-that-activates- with-sign-of-the-cross-tracks-health-data. 3. https://www.marian.org/news/Pray-the- Rosary-for-Peace-5466. 4. Roger Oakland, Another Jesus (Eureka, MT: Lighthouse Trails, 2007), p. 96. 5. Warren B. Smith, Be Still and Know That You Are NOT God (read online: https://www. lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=30362). 6. Ray Yungen, Simple Answers (Eureka, MT: Lighthouse Trails, 2017), p. 13. 7. Ibid., chapter 1. 8. The Liturgists Podcast (April 11, 2016, http://podcast.theliturgists.com/e/episode- 35-the-cosmic-christ-with-richard-rohr). SPRING 2020