Beware of following any man, in these last days, we must depend entirely on Christ in us and His Word. So many people in my mother's day, (I am 70), were cultural Christians following the culture rather than Christ. Most didn't even know their Bibles.
They had Bibles but they gathered dust in the house almost never read. Also, if they were read and the Bible said something different from the culture around them, they went with the culture.
This is the reason there are so many people who believe something is Biblical when it is against God's Word. They will even fight to defend their sinful mentality by intimidating truth tellers into silence by calling them things like "legalists" or rude for correcting. Once our eyes are open they can never be closed again, to the false Christianity that is everywhere now.
Dave Hunt said the following:
That arch heretic, Norman Vincent Peale (who said on national TV that there are many other ways to God besides Jesus Christ) was praised by Billy Graham and other church leaders. It was Peale who brought psychology/psychiatry into the church some 70 years ago. For decades, the entire evangelical community rejected this enemy intrusion as heresy destructive of the faith before succumbing to its siren song. Today, secular psychology and psychiatry, the most atheistic of all professions, are the darlings of the evangelical church.
How could this happen? It happened through baptizing psychology by attaching the word "Christian" to it. That deceit convinced Christians of the outrageous fiction that God's Word does not provide sufficient guidance for today's living but that we need additional help from rank unbelievers and Christ haters in order to live for Christ. As Newsweek reported long ago:
Christians are realizing that being born again is no vaccine against mental and emotional illness. One result: Christian psychotherapy, a for-profit movement aimed at mining new markets by offering evangelicals a Bible-based approach to problems from anxiety and depression to sexual abuse and schizophrenia.
"We use the same teachings and principles as other psychiatrists," says psychiatrist Steven Schultz, medical director at LifeCare's Ft. Worth center. "But we do it in the context that we're Christians."
What a damning confession; and what delusion! There is no "Christian context" for psychotherapy, which didn't exist until 1,800 years after Christ paid the penalty for our sins and the gospel began to be preached (Mk 1:1; Phil:4:15). Schultz could not have said more clearly that, for Christian psychotherapists, Paul's "Christ in you, the hope of glory" is an empty slogan without meaning for today's Christians! Besides, if everyone believed on Christ, found "peace through the blood of his cross" (Col:1:20), and obeyed His Word, the truth would make them free (Jn:8:31,32)--and psychiatrists and psychologists, "Christian" or not, would be unable to earn a living for lack of clients. That "for-profit" growth industry is jealously protected and promoted by its adherents at the eternal cost of souls!
