"Psychology's inroads into Christian life are due primarily to psychology's ability to offer emotional experiences sufficiently close to the experience of faith to be mistaken for faith itself. Because evangelical and charismatic Christians place such a great emphasis on the experience of faith, they are particularly susceptible to these imitations. That part of the world the Christian finds most attractive will often seem like Christianity itself. There will be much talk in it of brotherhood and love and the spirit. It will sound right. It will feel right. But it is wise to remind ourselves in the face of such temptation that the sacred can be drowned in a well of warm feelings just as surely as it can dry up in a secular desert." ~Psychological Seduction, p. 179
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