He says the purpose of religion is to recognize Christ and everything.

That's the goal of the Christian, that's the purpose of Hinduism.

To recognize the Communists and everything,

you could just slap the word universal Christ in there

in these dictionaries telling us how Brahmin is

and you would have richer or etchedology.

Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast.

So excited to bring you my guest today, Stephen Bancars,

who has an amazing story of coming out of the new age into Christianity.

He's here to talk to us today about this whole concept of Christ consciousness.

And this is particularly coming from the book, The Universal Christ by Richard Roar.

We're going to talk all about that and Stephen's review of that book.

But Stephen, I want to welcome you on today.

I'm so glad that you're here.

I first came across your work a few years ago, actually,

when I was doing some research for a chapter I was writing

in the Mama Bar apologetics book on New Spirituality New Age.

And for people who aren't familiar with you, I'd love it if you could just give us

a little insight into your backstory because you come out of the new age,

but you actually had quite a following in the new age as a teacher and leader

in that movement, didn't you?

Yeah, and I used to teach everything that we're going to be reviewing today.

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