Guidance to reach someone in New Age
Q: Can you all please put my husband on your prayer list? He's gone from being a Christian to the New Age, and it breaks my heart. I don't really feel like there's anything I can say to change his mind. He's done a deep dive for maybe 6 years now and spends a lot of money and time on it. I've prayed so many prayers for God to deliver him from the deception, for him to know the truth and be set free.
A: I would guide him to and through resources here in conversations, including have him look at these 4 videos that investigate Christianity.
Aldo see Melissa Douhgerty videos on yt, she came out of it and may help him. She has a new book too.
Tell him to look up Doreen Virtue and you go through her stuff too. She was strongly into the New Age and now she’s a born again Christian and she is speaking against the New Age. She even wrote books about it and she apologized to everyone who read her books and got her cards [that she made up. It was some kind of angel cards or tarot cards that she came up with], but she is totally out of that now. I think she has a podcast you can find, and there’s another woman named Jen Nisa. I think she was a medium and she was totally into the new age. She is now born again, Christian is speaking out against this. She, Doreen, virtue, and Melissa were into New Age and they have a podcast together I believe. Doreen‘s book is called Deceived No More she tells her whole testimony, and she even tells Christians what to do if they hear these new age words infiltrating the churches, which does happen. Melissa has a Happy Lies book just out too. Maybe you can buy /read them and then give them to him.
Also this goes over the problem with new age and has resources too.
The truth is If he understood and embraced the Gospel, he wouldn't have "left us" and kept looking for his identity and purpose in life, when its found in God and blossoms in Christ.
Do try to probe him around Christianity and then on why he gravitated towards new age. It may simply reveal he was an idolator/false convert all along, and your convos can help get him thinking and (with prayer) draw him back to Christianity. Many times it's cuz someone had an identity crisis that they were looking for purpose and meaning but never really got the answers in church so they looked elsewhere. Since he's in a culture influenced by Christianity, and has been in that in some way, it's possible to help answer these for him and lead him back, and to salvation.
Ask your pastor, mens group leader and others at church how to practically engage your husband in various scenarios and that can be a helpful guide.
Can you also share convos you have, his thoughts on things and Christianity, so it can also guide me too, I want to update this resource. For things to initially discuss, additional convos, and on to more deeper discussions, to help folk like you have a bit of a guide to jump in.
Hope this can help as you probe him about Christianity (see faq) and the Gospel.
Tbh, I am pretty sure your spouse was never involved in the home, his life, and in the church in an intimate way as we should be as a "believer". Such as being in the mens group, getting educated there on how to be a godly man, a husband, and father, growing in the Faith, getting questions answered etc. And thats why he looked outside the church. Either he didn't want to know so he could into the world and chase sin, or he was never plugged in the church properly to form godly friendships with men, and get answers and guidance. This would spill into his personal home life too cuz if he's not daily reading Scripture, and being a spiritual leader daily at home over you and the kids... all of these things get exposed at some point; and the husband either aligns to it, or flees it for self and sin.
Many young folk who didnt have godly guides at home or at church, married and found out years later, he had played the part of a Christian, but that he's a false convert.
Keep living godly before him, keep growing in the Faith, stay firm on the foundation of Faith, cling to Christ your anchor and rock, and be in prayer. Perhaps one day God will save him. There's hope till his last breathe.
God bless.
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