The impulse toward faith is God-given and good. But faith must find an object to rest on. The danger of our world’s false form of worshiping God through a nebulous spiritual connection is that, in the absence of a clearly defined object of faith, faith usually ends up resting back on the person himself.

Don’t be a “person of faith.” It’s a meaningless statement, like saying “I like food” or “I like to sleep.” Be a person who admits he doesn’t know what he believes, or a devout Buddhist or Muslim. Then, at least, you stand in well-defined ignorance or false worship.

The worst deception is thinking you’re worshiping the true God when, in reality, you’re only making up your own game. Moving tokens around a game board doesn’t mean you’re playing Monopoly. It is one thing for a person to describe her own spiritual vibrations and internal wellbeing as “worship.” But if the same person wishes to persuade you that her worship is climbing up another side of the same mountain as Christianity, it is safe to assume that she is working under a delusion, and doesn’t really understand biblical Christianity.

Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jn 14:6). Peter tells his audience that: “there is salvation in no one else [but Jesus], for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) The exclusivity of Jesus Christ is a definitive break from the morass of undirected, blasé spiritual feelings and moral behaviors. It was precisely the exclusivity of salvation in Christ which stirred up riots and retribution against the disciples.

The world is ready to approve and accept those who proclaim and follow a syncretistic Jesus—a Jesus who is one of many spiritual pathways, who validates our perceived experience, and who doesn’t bother us with claims of absolute truth or doctrine.

People do not generally reject any spiritual affinity whatsoever, but rather opt for an internally mediated emotional state of being or frame of mind.

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