By T.A. McMahon
The Berean Call
A staff member handed me a couple of the latest magazine issues we received in order to review them. They were Christianity Today (CT) and Charisma Magazine (CM). We subscribe to them in order to keep up to date regarding teachings that are being disseminated throughout Christendom. In general they are representative of seemingly diverse Christian theological positions. CT was founded by Billy Graham and has been described as “a mainstream evangelical magazine.” Its beginnings were conservative, doctrinally, and Graham was considered an icon of fundamentalism. Not too long afterward, however, he began praising modernists (Christian liberals of that day) and involving them in his crusades. His later crusades included Roman Catholic priests and nuns as counselors who were to direct those Catholics who responded to Graham’s message back to their Catholic churches! Those seeds have produced the Christianity Today of our day. It is unabashedly liberal and pro-Catholic, which underscores its ongoing disregard of biblical Christianity.
Charisma Magazine has been described as “the main magazine of the Charismatic Movement.” Unlike CT, it hasn’t grown from the seeds of doctrinal changes. Its errors of hyper-charismatic beliefs were in place from the beginning of its publishing in the mid-1970s. Click here to continue reading.
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I’ve never subscribed to CT, but I have seen their online version, how error-filled, leftist/socialist political, and spiritually destructive it is. I subscribed to Charisma for several years, found some good teaching among the rest, but it has become so far out (spiritually) in recent years, I dropped my subscription.
Recently I got a postcard in the mail saying that a pastor who has a column in the magazine was “sending me a six-month gift subscription”. So I am getting the magazine again. I got one in the last week and the vast majority of it was still beyond the pale.
I wonder if others are dropping their subscriptions too, and if that’s why they’re sending them out as gifts? If so, I pray the editors and people who contribute articles will truly seek the Lord, His true Word, so they can hopefully turn and repent of the error they have promoted.
I’ve seen only ONE Christian “magazine” ever . . . a top-selling book called the Bible. Heard of it? Its Author is Divine.