Caught But Not Trapped in New Age Religion ~ Guest Post @ Blessed Transgressions

I am honored to have a guest post up today at a new online magazine, Blessed Transgressions.   This is my story.

(Some of you have read this (as I have posted it here @ Being Woven in conjunction with Soli Deo Gloria Sisterhood.  Please feel free to share it with others.)

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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.   John 4:1

I was raised in a Christian home, learned about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. (Please note, for later in this conversation, that I said, “…learned about….”)  We were a Navy family and moved every two to four years, therefore changed churches without changing denominations. I was not introduced to Jesus as Someone with Whom I could have a relationship. In my senior and my fifth year of college, I lived away from home and did not attend church at all. Shortly after college, I married a man who never had attended a church and wanted nothing to do with one so having a spiritual conversation was not even an option. (Let me throw another fact in to be absorbed a bit later: Before marrying him, I heard a quiet voice say to me, “You are not to marry him” which I ignored completely.”) Upon divorce ten years later, I felt “something” was missing from my life. I set out to find a church that I felt comfortable in and landed upon one with a very strong singles’ group. This church was a different Christian denomination from my childhood one, yet also did not introduce me to Jesus, only spoke about Him.

When I moved back to be near family again, I found another church. It was what I came to know as a New Age church.  Join me @ Blessed Transgressions for the rest of my story.