Featured Charles Stanley & Mysticism

I think the keyword from the article posted....."megachurch", is probably the main kernel of consternation from the detractors.

 

A view of Charles Stanley's interview as perceived by slaveofJesusChrist

 

You see nothing mystical about a group of men telling you to close your eyes, imagine yourself as a baby and your father picking you up?

Since Charles admitted in the interview that he never knew the love of God before meeting with his friends, (despite the fact that he had been preaching for years) and never knew his father either, i would say his discovering what God's love was by imagining his father picking him up and hugging him could easily be understood as mystical.

 

How can one be saved and not know the love of God? The bible shows us the depth, height, width and length of His love in great detail.

 

Not all who treach that are "heretics", some such as the WoF and modern day prophets/Apostles/SDA etc, but Dr stanley would been seen by one like me as being a fellow brother in the lord, just with some faulty doctrines!

 

Why would any one say that God speaks to him other than through scripture? What motive do people like this have other than promoting themselves. Any time anyone makes such a claim, they are trying to take peoples eyes off of Christ and put the focus on themselves. Where will all of this lead ? Answer: down the same path as Richard Roberts And Oral Roberts when they see a sixty foot Jesus at the end of their bed or Richard being on a talk show and all of a sudden interrupts whoever is talking by saying God has just spoken a word to me.

 

I wish this was one of those boards where I could give you "reputation" points. I surely would for this post.

It's one thing to say that you believe God illuminated a given verse or passage, but anybody who thinks they receive extra-Biblical revelation is not only deceived, but is just begging for trouble on a whole number of levels.

Anytime you say "God told me...", that's serious. That means you're speaking on God's behalf and playing around, not only with His Word, but with His character. We no longer stone people for that, but there's nothing in the Bible to indicate that God takes it any less seriously than He ever did.

 

Same here. While it's true that he's playing around the edges of orthodoxy with some of his teachings, as of this moment, as far as I know, he's still a brother in Christ and is still in the camp. He's just wrong.

 

I believe this is correct. It has been nearly 25 years since I read the book, but his book, "How to Listen to God," covers this I believe.

Having said that, I believe Stanley is absolutely correct because Jesus taught this very thing. It is also part of the biblical witness from Old to New Testament.

But before you condemn Stanley for this belief, take the opportunity to read his book and understand his position in context.

 

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Let's see how many non cals in this thread think that Stanley is a mystic?

 

Christians trying to call out a great man for being a mystic. :laugh:
Brothers and sisters we are ALL mystics! Are we not? I believe God hears and in some cases (has answered) my prayers. Do you not? I'm a baptist from womb to tomb but MAN y'all sure are on Charismatic neighborhood watch.

 

So one revelation leads to another. Are you saying now that you became pregnant without the help of a man ?

 

What and idiotic thing to say.