John Mark Comer claims that the apostle Paul was teaching that transformation happens as we "look at God, looking at us in love" in his epistle to the Ephesians. He states that all of us can become like Jesus if we "let God love us into people of love" through contemplation. We show that the love...

In this episode we continue to examine John Mark Comer’s claim that we can be transformed through contemplation. Comer misuses key verses in Ephesians to do this. Bob exhorts listeners to believe what God has chosen to reveal in Scripture and reject mystical contemplation through which we suppose...

In this episode we compare the mystical Jesus of John Mark Comer’s book to the true Jesus that Paul taught in Acts and First Corinthians. Paul used logical categories that could be understood using our rational minds, not awareness of presence as Comer claims. Paul told Fetus he spoke “words of s...

Bob and Barb discuss the informal logical fallacies that Comer uses to make spiritual formation sound pious. They go on to discuss discerning of spirits as found in 1John 4:1-3. This is not spiritual impressions or feelings; it's testing what is stated by people claiming to speak for God based on...

In this episode we evaluate Comer's claim that God's "burning desire is to know and be known by you. And like in any intimate relationship, there is a kind of knowledge that goes beyond words." What follows is romantic mysticism through contemplative prayer. We encourage listeners to reject mysti...

John Mark Comer claims that Christians today need to recapture the contemplative mysticism of the past or "we will not exist at all in the corrosive soil of the secular West." Comer uses Colossians 1:27 to support his mystical view of “Christ in us.” We show that Christ in us happens through the ...

In this episode we continue to compare the spirit “Jesus” of John Mark Comer’s book with what we find in 1John. We must test the spirits using objective truth from Scripture, not from mystical impressions. Faith is not awareness of presence; it’s grounded in authoritative truth.

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John Mark Comer claims that environment matters for prayer by misusing Jesus’ teaching on prayer in Matthew 6. We examine that passage and show that it’s motive that matters, not environment. In Matthew 6:5-8 Jesus warns against hypocrisy in offering long prayers to gain status among religious pe...