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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#87 Is your church teaching New Age Ideas? With Melissa Dougherty

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ex-New Ager Melissa Dougherty joins me to discuss certain New Age ideas that are being marketed to the church as "Christian." What are the buzzwords, catch phrases, and teachings that are coming to a church near you?

Transcript

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I think a lot of Christians, a lot of Christians, churches are sacrificing their good theology

0:05.2

on the altar of unity.

0:06.3

Well, I'm here with Melissa Doherty.

0:24.7

We're going to have a great conversation today about new age and how new age ideas are

0:30.2

making their way into the church.

0:31.7

You can be looking for some of these ideas in your church or church you might visit or

0:35.9

maybe you're seeing it on social media or you're hearing about it from Christian friends

0:40.1

that might be attending another church.

0:42.2

So Melissa, thanks for being here today.

0:44.4

Tell us a little bit about your story of you actually came out of the new age into Christian

0:50.2

faith.

0:51.2

How did that happen and did you grow up in a Christian home?

0:53.8

Give us a little bit of your background.

0:55.4

Yeah, sure.

0:56.4

Thanks.

0:57.4

Thanks you.

0:58.4

Thank you, Alisa, by the way, for having me on it's an honor.

1:01.2

My story is twofold because I became a Christian when I was 16 and it was unexpected.

1:09.1

I was in a really deep, dark place.

1:12.2

I wasn't really searching, but that's a long story in and of itself.

1:16.7

But I basically had a friend.

1:19.0

I was at a very low point and I had a friend.

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