Doesn prayer ministry use New Age techniques?
A. Some ministries have been accused of being New Age because they use ideas that have also been adopted by New Age practitioners. However, New Age and other false religions have always stolen what is good and twisted it to their own purposes. After all, even witches pray, so should Christians give up praying? A commonly cited example is the use of visualisation. The reason Christians today seem afraid of visualisation is not because it is wrong but because it is misused by others. However, the ability to see with the imagination is a God given gift and an essential component of being able to see spiritual things. The difference from New Age practice is that Christians should not use it to pretend that an undesirable event never happened and so attempt to change reality by visualising what is desired and try to create it by the power of the mind. This is closely related to witchcraft, and is widely taught in schools to young children and to salesmen and business executives. A Christian
