The following is part of an EEO Class Action Complaint regarding Motivational Training.
9. To show how the preceding Human Potential/Eastern Mysticism/New Age/Occult teachings cannot be considered neutral, “psychological” techniques in relation to many people’s religious beliefs, the following is to provide a comparison with Biblical Christianity.
a. There is one God and he is personal.
b. There is one reality, and it is created by God.
c. God loves each of us and has a plan for each of our lives.
d. But “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
e. “And the wages of sin is death.”
f. “But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
g. God became a human being for 33 years; died on a cross, in our place, for our sins.
h. He rose again on the third day to demonstrate the defeat of sin and death and to show that we, too, can have eternal life.
j. “To those who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave them the right to become children of God.”
k. “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may know you have eternal life.”
l. “All who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”
m. “It is appointed unto man to die once, and then the judgment.”
n. Sin has separated humans from God and they are doomed to an eternity in hell.
o. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
p. A person must repent of his sin, accept Jesus as savior, and ask Jesus to be the Lord of his life.
q. After a person becomes a Christian, his goal is not “self-love” or “self-actualization”, or “self-realization.” His goal is to “die to self.” “It is no longer I who live but Christ in me.”
r. The goal of the Christian is to be like Jesus; to live moment by moment, relying on God’s grace, the power of the Holy Spirit to enable him to say yes to the Lord and no to sin.
s. The Lord disciplines those he loves. He breaks us and remakes us.
t. The Sovereign God of the universe has a plan for each of our lives. It is not one we conjured up in our own minds.
u. Fulfillment comes in surrendering our lives to God, and seeking His plan for our lives.
v. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Not, “I can do all things through the psychic power of my own mind.”
w. Prayer is not meditating on a mantra, or guided visualization through “a hallway that leads no where.” Prayer is not repetitious affirmations and “self talk.” Prayer is not the reprogramming of the subconscious or the working out of one’s karma. Prayer is talking to God, “one who sticks closer than a brother.” “He will never leave you nor forsake you. Cast all your cares on Him for he cares for you.” Prayer is communicating to God gratitude, adoration, praise, requests, supplications and intercessions.
x. Faith is having confidence in God, not in the occult powers of my own mind.
y. God promises that “all things work together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose.” “There is a way that seems right to a man but in the end it leads to destruction.” My own “inner wisdom” my own “vision from within” will “lead nowhere” but destruction.
z. God’s plan for my life is found outside of my own “wisdom”. It is found in his written word, in prayer to him as He reveals his will in conformance with His written word (the Bible).
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