Is Your Faith Being Used to Control You? | Testing the Spirits EP 1

Can something look holy, sound biblical, quote Scripture, and still pull someone away from Christ? In the first episode of Testing the Spirits, Bennett Tanton and Laura Baker examine what Christians often call the Spirit of Religion. Is it legalism? Pride? Control? False doctrine? Religious tradition? Spiritual deception? Or can several of these things work together? Laura shares her perspective from years of deliverance ministry and discusses how religious systems, agreements, traditions, pride, self-righteousness, and performance can distort a believer’s understanding of God. Bennett and Laura also examine an uncomfortable possibility: sometimes the person caught in religious deception sincerely be...