Mennonites Promote Oprah’s Gospel
Today Roll Over Menno is wondering if the editors of the MB (Mennonite Brethren) Herald ever get embarrassed. The following is from an article in the MB Herald last May…
“Oprah gives God the glory for her gifts and calling: “The voices of the world told me I was poor, coloured, and female but God had another vision for me.”
…We cannot expect Oprah to tell people about salvation through Jesus’ death and resurrection. That’s the church’s job. But there is so much redemptive value in the kinds of stories she shares and the engaging way she shares them – redemptive value upon which the church can build. In fact, it would be a waste of God’s gift if we didn’t.”
You may read it on-line here:
The good news according to Oprah Winfrey
http://www.mbherald.com/45/07/culture.en.html
Are the Mennonites who published this not aware of the well known fact that the gospel of Oprah Winfrey says Jesus can’t be the only way to God?
Today if you tune in to Oprah’s show, you will see her promote this:
Oprah Show Today: “Silence is the Only True Religion”
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=823&more=1&c=1
After today, will these Mennonites still believe there is “redemptive value” in the gospel of Oprah?
ROM Index: Menno is too embarrassed to roll over this time around
>>>Here is an UPDATE: First it was The Secret. But the secret is out. Beginning January 1, 2008, in another blatant step towards publicizing her New Age affinities, Oprah will be broadcasting one lesson a day from Marianne Williamson’s A Course in Miracles on her radio show.
Like you, I prefer to distance myself (and Christianity as a whole) from American pop religion, which Oprah embodies almost perfectly, rather than pointing out its few similarities to the true faith. But I think it’s too much to say that they should be embarrassed for noticing those places where there is consonance. Where Oprah encourages forgiveness, or makes healing possible, she’s spot on–and how much better that people be watching that (as the MB article says), than “Real World” or “Howard Stern”? I think you’re making the MB article say more than it is. The author isn’t saying Oprah is preaching the true gospel; he explicitly says she isn’t. But he is saying that her message sometimes, surprisingly, brings true hope to a world who needs it.
Please note.
What Opra is saying may have some temporary value here on earth, but it does not agree with what Jesus says in John 14:6
” Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”. We have a choice to believe
Opra or Jesus
I’m not surprised that Christians are getting deceived because the Bible says that in the last days even some of the elect would be deceived. The problem is that a lot of Christians are not reading their Bibles and not knowing that any form of occult is an abomination to our dear Lord. The Secret is a lighter form of Rosicrucian, which when a person actually starts the candle rituals they will be adopting the full-blown occult into their life. I have a personal account of a family member being involved with Rosicrucianism and it is a New Age Religion. I was given permission to burn the materials as a young girl. When a person gets onto The Secret website he/she will be directed to a few links and one is Rosicrucian. It is not as rosy as it sounds. Without the help of the Lord Jesus they may never get out! You better be careful of whom you are getting your teaching from. The only place for good solid teaching is the word of God. If it feels questionable and makes you feel uneasy it probably is a prompting of the Holy Spirit to warn you. There are wolves in sheeps clothing trying to deceive even the very elect in these last days. Our unction with the Father through His Only Son, Jesus Christ is more powerful and gives us strength to resist the evil in the world these days when we are serious about Him. Develop a love for Jesus and His Word. It’s the only “leg we have to stand on” in this world.