About
Chris Lawson – researcher/lecturer – is both an experienced missionary and an ordained pastor. As such, he has spent much time as a researcher, writer and counselor, helping people escape the clutches of spiritual deception and spiritual abuse. Among his achievements and calling as a career missionary, he has served as a long-term church planter in the USA and also in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also the Founder and Director of Spiritual Research Network, a Christian outreach dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel and encouraging biblical discernment.
Featured Work
Occultic Practices & Beliefs Crossing Into Charismatic Revivalism
A Glossary of Terms of Occultic Practices and Beliefs that have been "Christianized" and have crossed over into various abusive Christian churches and Neo-charismatic revival settings. These occult beliefs and practices are being deceptively employed in counterfeit Christian revivals and “signs and wonders” movements within Christendom.
In many places today, the church has become rife with spiritual things that bear no resemblance to biblical Christianity. Spiritually blind leaders, excessive false teaching and false prophecy, and experience-driven practices rooted in mysticism and the occult have become common.
Unknown to many Christians, occult (hidden/unseen) demonic spiritual forces (“seducing spirits,” 1 Timothy 4:1) masquerade as the Holy Spirit but are really counterfeit “angel[s] of light” (2 Corinthians 11:13-15). New Age/occult practitioners view these powers as “the force,” “energy,” Ch’i, Ki, Qi (Qigong), Kundalini Shakti, Feng Shui, “universal vital/life energy,” an impersonal “it,” and more. Most Christians appear to be utterly ignorant of this.
In counterfeit Christian revivals and “signs and wonders” movements, these demonic powers produce manifestations identical to the paranormal phenomena in New Age/mystical and occult settings.
Read more at this link.
https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/new-booklet-occultic-practices-beliefs-crossing-into-charismatic-revivalism/
Other Works
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A New Narrative For A "New" World: A Compendium of Terms To Discern Today's Dialect
2023
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How to Know if You Are Being Spiritually Abused or Deceived: A Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire
2017
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Taizé—A Community and Worship: Ecumenical Reconciliation or an Interfaith Delusion?
2017
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The Alpha Course: An Evangelical Contradiction
2017
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YOGA and Christianity – Are They Compatible?
2013
Press and Media Mentions
- NEW BOOKLET: How to Know if You Are Being Spiritually Abused or Deceived—A Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire
- NEW BOOKLET – The Alpha Course— An Evangelical Contradiction
- Taizé Worship – Growing in Popularity, But Roots Are in Mystical Monasticism
- Taizé, the Eucharist, and Bethel Church’s Bill Johnson
- Taizé Community – A Lifelong Commitment to Celibacy
- “Reconciliation” — A “Theological Theme” at Taizé
- Taizé Community And How it Affected My life
- SRN’s Questionaire – Spiritual Abuse and Group Dynamics – Are You in the Middle of it But Even Don’t Know it?
- Does Your Pastor Know That Yoga and Christianity Are Not Compatible?
- NEW BOOKLET: YOGA and Christianity – Are They Compatible?
- Letter to the Editor: Even Good Churches Being Affected by Contemplative Authors
- NEW BOOKLET: A Directory of Authors (Three NOT Recommended Lists)
- Lighthouse Trails New Book Release: A New Narrative for a “New” World
- New Booklet: Occultic Practices & Beliefs Crossing Into Charismatic Revivalism