[Faith-talk] The Christ of Lightworkers Media

Wed Mar 18 16:47:28 UTC 2015

Interesting.  While I believe things should indeed be tested through the 
Spirit, it seems that there are some valed shots at some Pentecostal and 
Charismatic leaders in this artacle.  As a pentecostal myself, I think the 
writer should be careful.
Just my two cents.
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> The Christ of Lightworkers Media
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> March 18, 2015
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> __________
>
> Roma Downey is the co-owner, with her husband Mark Burnett, of 
> Lightworkers Media, the producer of The Bible miniseries which aired in 
> 2013 (the History Channel) and The Son of God movie which appeared in 2014 
> (20th Century Fox). The movie was adapted from the miniseries. In December 
> 2014, Lightworkers Media will air Women of Bible.
>
>
> The fact that Roma's productions are widely promoted by "evangelical" 
> Christians is evidence of the width and depth of the apostasy that we are 
> witnessing in these end times.
>
>
> The Bible miniseries was endorsed by Rick Warren, Jim Daly of Focus on the 
> Family, T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Lisa Harper of Women of Faith, Luis 
> Palau, Dick Rolfe, and many others. Osteen, Warren, and Jakes were 
> advisers for the Lightworkers Media production. Rick Warren rented movie 
> theaters for the showing of the Son of God movie. Osteen purchased and 
> distributed 8,000 tickets.
>
>
> Victoria Osteen and Kay Warren appear in the Women of the Bible. These 
> women are wives of the pastors of two of the largest "evangelical" 
> churches in America. Joyce Meyer is also featured in Women of the Bible.
>
>
> Roma Downey played a prominent role in the January 2015 We Will Stand 
> Contemporary Music concert, which featured Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, 
> Newsboys, Don Moen, Mark Schultz, Sandi Patti, Travis Cottrell (Beth 
> Moore's worship leader), Steven Curtis Chapman, Steve Green, Dallas Holm, 
> Russ Taff, The Imperials, Don Francisco, First Call, Michael Omartian, 
> Francesca Battistelli, Kari Jobe, Laura Story, Petra, 4Him, Point of 
> Grace, Carman, Nicole Mullen, among others.
>
>
> Downey's productions have been hugely popular.
>
>
> The first episode of The Bible, which ran on March 2013, was seen by more 
> than 13 million viewers, the largest cable television audience that year 
> ("Mark Burnett's The Bible begets record ratings," Entertainment Weekly, 
> March 4, 2013). When The Bible was released on DVD a month later, it 
> quickly sold more than one-half million copies to become the top-selling 
> TV miniseries. Within the first month, the miniseries had been viewed by 
> an estimated 95 million people ("#1 TV on DVD in last five years," 
> HollywoodJesus.com, April 8, 2013). The YouVersion Bible App, the official 
> app of The Bible miniseries, had 88 million downloads and was the in top 
> 15 of all free apps in the iTunes store.
>
>
> The Son of God movie made $26.5 million in its first weekend, and within 
> three months it had grossed $68 million.
>
>
> Shouldn't we rejoice that multitudes of people are seeing these multimedia 
> presentations about the Bible and Jesus?
>
>
> God warns His people to prove all things and to try the spirits. He warns 
> of false christs and false spirits and false gospels.
>
>
> "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive 
> many" (Matthew 24:5).
>
>
> "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his 
> subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in 
> Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:3).
>
>
> "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are 
> of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1 John 
> 4:1).
>
>
> In light of what Roma Downey believes and practices, it is obvious that 
> her programs and movies are introducing people to a false christ, a false 
> spirit, and a false gospel.
>
>
> NEW AGE SELF WORSHIP
>
>
> Roma, who became famous for her role as "the angel Monica" in the New-agey 
> TV series Touched by an Angel, is a Roman Catholic who holds New Age 
> principles and communes with the dead.
>
>
> Touched by an Angel promotes the New Age doctrines that men are not 
> estranged from God by sin, that they do not have to be reconciled through 
> Christ's atonement, that God is the Father of all men, that angels are not 
> perfect, and that salvation is by human kindness.
>
>
> When Roma was married in 2007 to television producer Mark Burnett (her 
> second marriage), the ceremony was performed by Della Reese, her co-star 
> in Touched by an Angel. Reese is the co-founder with Johnnie Coleman of 
> the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church. Coleman is a New 
> Thought minister of the Unity School of Christianity, which teaches, "We 
> are Divine through the Christ within, the individualization of God in us."
>
>
> Roma graduated from the University of Santa Monica with a masters degree 
> in Spiritual Psychology. The university was "founded by New Age spiritual 
> and self-help guru John-Roger" ("Roma Downey Happy Out of Spotlight," 
> Beck/Smith Hollywood, April 23, 2013). The university's web site describes 
> Spiritual Psychology as "the study and practice of the art and science of 
> human evolution in consciousness." It says that the benefits of Spiritual 
> Psychology include "experiencing enhanced spiritual awareness through 
> knowing yourself as a Divine Being," "individual evolution," and "learning 
> to relate to yourself with greater compassion and awareness of yourself as 
> a Divine Being having a human experience."
>
>
> The New Age book Loyalty to Your Soul by Ron and Mary Hulnick carries Roma 
> Downey's recommendation as follows: "The teachings in this beautiful book 
> have sent me on a journey to the very center of my own being where, 
> wrapped in the safe wings of Love, I feel as though I have come home."
>
>
> Loyalty to Your Soul teaches self worship. "Center your awareness in your 
> heart and consciously look for the Loving Essence in the person in your 
> presence. By doing so, you're signifying your respect for the Soul before 
> you ...  Maintain awareness that you're in conversation with another 
> Divine Being who is engaged in having a human experience" (p. 209).
>
>
> She says that she listens to books on tape by New Age guru Eckhart Tolle, 
> who teaches the divinity of man. (See our book The New Age Tower of Babel 
> for documentation.) Tolle says, "God, the scripture is saying, is formless 
> consciousness and the essence of who you are" (The New Earth, p. 219), 
> and, "Christ is your God-essence or Self" (The Power of Now, p. 104).
>
>
> COMMUNING WITH MARY
>
>
> Roma says, "I have prayed to Mary and loved her my whole life" ("The 
> Bible: An Epic Mini-Series," Catholiclane.com, Feb. 28, 2013). (She plays 
> the part of Mary in The Bible miniseries.) She promotes the use of the 
> Rosary as a meditation practice. By this, practitioners pray to Mary as 
> the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. The Catholic Mary is a mediator 
> between God and man who can hear and answer the prayers of every 
> petitioner, thus having the divine attributes of omnipresence and 
> omnipotence.
>
>
> COMMUNING WITH THE DEAD
>
>
> Roma also communes with the dead. On the Crossing Over television program 
> on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002, she supposedly talked to her mother through 
> the mediumship of psychic Jonathan Edwards (Drew MacKenzie, "Roma's TV 
> chat to dead mother," TheFreeLibrary.com). Roma's CD "Meditation" is 
> included with Jonathan Edward's book Practical Praying: Using the Rosary 
> to Enhance Your Life.
>
>
> "And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after 
> wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that 
> soul, and will cut him off from among his people" (Leviticus 20:6).
>
>
> "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar 
> spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people 
> seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" (Isaiah 8:19).
>
>
> A FALSE CHRIST
>
>
> The christ of The Bible miniseries and The Son of God movie is not the 
> Christ of Scripture. The christ of Lightworkers Media is the typical 
> long-haired hippy of popular mythical imagination. He looks and acts like 
> a cool surfer dude, a miracle-working super hero. He does not call people 
> to repentance from sin; he does not warn of hell; he does not require the 
> new birth for salvation. The christ of The Bible miniseries and The Son of 
> God movie is the non-judgmental christ of The Shack, a christ who accepts 
> everyone, sees the goodness in every person, and "puts no obligations on 
> anyone." He is a cool, modern christ. At the Last Supper, the christ of 
> the Son of God movie does not mention "the forgiveness of sins" in 
> connection with the cup and his death.
>
>
> The Son of God promotes a New Age world in which all men will be saved, in 
> which all religions are accepted by God. Before he is beheaded, John the 
> Baptist says, "His [Jesus] power will draw all men to a new world."
>
>
> "In the 'Son of God' what they are trying to present is not the Orthodox 
> Christ, but one who's message is not of repentance but of uniting all 
> faiths into and earthly kingdom where all are welcome. In Antichrist's 
> kingdom heretics and sinners, all are told they are accepted as they are" 
> ("Son of God: A Charismatic Revival Masterpiece," Orthodox Views, March 1, 
> 2014).
>
>
> It can be no accident that the actor of The Son of God movie bears an 
> uncanny resemblance to a New Age "cosmic christ" and ascended master 
> called Sananda who is channelled by occultists.
>
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