Fire Tunnels
There is a lot going on in the “emerging” church today, that borders on eastern mysticism. A whole range of stuff that is quite simply unbiblical, but widely accepted through the modern church, is leaving many believers alarmingly wide open to all sorts of spiritual influence. Just taking a quick look around the internet for a start, you will see many references to things such as ekstasis dance, yogic meditation, contemplative prayer, soaking etc., that encourages the believer to empty their mind and leave it open to anything that wants to take hold of it.
At the time of the Lakeland outpouring last year, I was rebuked by some for taking quite a strong stance against some of the practices that were going on there. However, in the light of what has happened since, I still very much stand by my reservations. This message is not to try and influence everyone to “my way of thinking”, but it is to address a practice that I know from someone involved, is going on right in the city of Southampton.
I urge you to take a look at the following video recordings from the popular “fire tunnel” practice that I am referring to, and ask that you should seriously consider if participating in this type of thing is not endangering yourself spiritually, to say the least. I am not going to go off on a long rant about this practice, for it is just one of many types that are popular at the moment. However if you have experienced these type of practices in your church locally, and feel slightly uncomfortable about the whole thing, please do not be duped into thinking you’re simply the odd one out. In fact you are in a growing number of Christians who are beginning to awaken to the possibility that many practices going on of this kind are often simply not of God at all.
If after watching the video you feel that you would like to look into these matters further, and at least arm yourself with scriptural reasoning either for or against these things, please feel free to email me at: john@heartcry.me.uk and I will give you the addresses of website ministries that devote much time and effort into studying these things in the light of Scripture, and find much reason for concern.
[This is a different video to the original posted with this article, as the original has been removed.]
Originally posted 2009-03-11 07:29:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
