 CHRISTIAN STRATEGISTS WORRIED ABOUT POPULARITY OF YOG
Christian Strategists are worried about popularity of Yog
[ From: garuda1953 garuda1953@yahoo.com
[ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005
Eastern Mysticism and Christianity are Incompatible
By Jan Markell
What do you say when a good friend who loves God, reads
her Bible, and talks and walks her faith becomes a
devotee of "Christian yog?" You might brace yourself and
prepare yourself, because "Christian yog" is coming to a
church near you. And to those who understand yog's Hindu
roots and to all former New Agers, it will never be
compatible with Evangelical Christianity.
The May 20 edition of "Christianity Today" online
featured an interview with a woman who says she is an
Evangelical and proud of it; however, she is a devotee of
yog. She says she breathes in Christ and out stress. Holy
Spirit in, fear out. God the Father in, carbon dioxide
out. She is so thankful someone pried open her
Evangelical mind to the wonders of yog. She states, "Give
me five minutes of yog and my mind immediately goes to
the metaphor of God's Spirit being omnipresent and as
necessary as air." She insists the Hindu gods will never
make it to her yog mat. She would be in the chorus
singing that yog doesn't belong to Hinduism but to "world
spirituality." Frankly, that doesn't sound any better. A
popular video called, "Outstretched in Worship" has
fueled the yog popularity among Christians, be they
Mainline Protestants, Evangelicals, or Catholics. Just
don't throw the baby out with the bath water as
proponents insist there are so many "benefits" of yog.
And now that it is "sanctified," let's have a brand of
"Christian yog."
Daniel Akin, dean of the school of theology at the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said Christians
who are drawn to the physical benefits of yog should
avoid its spiritual and psychological underpinnings. "Yog
is rooted in Eastern mysticism and it is incompatible
with Christianity," he says.
Laurette Willis, a yog veteran of 22 years and an
Evangelical Christian, said the experience left her
vulnerable to "psychic influences" she believes were
demonic. "It opened the door to twenty years of
involvement in the New Age movement." Willis says that
many yog postures are based on ancient Hindu worship of
the sun and moon as deities, and rejects the notion that
they can be redeemed by putting a Christian spin on them.
Willis concludes that yog's emphasis on cultivating
divine energy within oneself conflicts with
Christianity's goal of finding salvation in Christ. Yog
means joining together. It's the joining of the
individual spirit with the universal spirit. Christians
should be seeing red flags rather than exploring a trendy
new "experience."
The day has come when we need a "spiritual Better
Business Bureau" to deal with fads, dangerous trends, and
mysticism now entering the church. And while many are
aware of the dangers, too often today church leaders are
warmly receiving deceiving spirits. No matter what the
supposed "health benefits" of yog may be, it is not worth
the risk to one's spiritual health.
So what do you say to that friend who has embraced
"Christian yog?" You need to tell them that to believe
that yog complements all faiths and is harmless is to
believe a lie and it is actually hazardous to your
health. Hindu gods are responsible for enormous damage on
a scale too vast to measure.
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