New Wine or Old Deception? A Biblical Perspective of Experience-Based Christiani

by Roger Oakland

There are many people in the world today who claim an experience called the "Toronto Blessing" is God's way of pouring out His Spirit upon the world. This experience is often accompanied by all kinds of strange physical phenomena including hysterical laughing, shaking, twitching, falling over on the floor, and even behaving and making sounds like animals. This "New Wine" they say, is the first phase of a great revival that is sweeping the world and causing many to become Christians. There are others who believe that extra-biblical experiences are seducing Christians into one of the greatest delusions of all time. They claim Christians are moving away from the authority of the Word of God, and seeking after an experience-based Christianity which is part of the great apostasy that the Bible foretells will occur in the last days. New Wine or Old Deception? traces this current deception back to its roots and provides a biblical solution that directs Christians back to the authority of the Word of God. Roger Oakland is an author-lecturer who lives in Costa Mesa , California . He speaks on the subject of how the Bible helps us understand the past, what is happening in the world today, and where we are headed in the future.

119 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

Reviews

[youMUSTbebornagain john 3.16-21]

MUST read for anyone who thinks they are a Christian.

[Dan]

A great, short read. Oakland describes the deception going on in the New Wine / Emerging Church movement and how (particularly Pentecostal/Charismatic movements) people are increasingly being deceived into an experiential and dangerous faith.

[Chad]

Roger Oakland does a great job of both challenging and refuting experience based Christianity. With the "toronto blessing" and other unbiblical elements creeping their way into the church, we need a book like this that is a short read and is backed by Scripture.