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Post by Berean on May 27, 2021 22:36:28 GMT -5
False Teacher of the Day #12: Ann Voskamp
By REFORMATION CHARLOTTE - MAY 25, 2021 Continuing our False Teacher of the Day series, we’d like to discuss popular author, poet, and Evangelical speaker, Ann Voskamp. Voskamp is popular among the continuationist camp of quasi-Reformed Evangelicals like Matt Chandler and John Piper, but she is particularly popular among Evangelical women with her books, devotionals, and daily blog posts. But is she safe, sound, and biblical? Besides embracing the Evangelical social justice movement and joining the ranks of woke Christendom–as has the vast majority of Evangelicalism–she also teaches that “hospitality” is our theology and is the theology of the cross as she preaches to an audience filled with men in defiance of Scripture. Voskamp thinks about God in a dangerous way as she, like many Christian women authors, speaks of God’s love for them erotically. She romanticizes her relationship with Christ. This heresy is called theoerocism, sometimes called theoeroticism. It’s thinking of God’s love in terms of the Greek word eros rather than agape. In other words, she thinks of Christ as a lover — not just a savior. In an excerpt from her book, 1000 Gifts, she speaks of a time when she seems to be depressed about certain situations in her life that aren’t going the way she expects. She and a high-school friend decide to take a walk, and she notices chalk writing on the sidewalk that says “Hey Beautiful, you are loved!” She then says in the excerpt: And she laughs loud and we’re carried and hey, who needs Ryan Gosling and his “Hey Girl” meme when you’ve got God with His “Hey Beautiful” promise? Continued at link
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