Reprinted from http://ematthaei.blogspot.com/

“Today, again [as in Medieval religion], believers are looking for direct experiences or encounters with God. Mysticism abounds in contemporary evangelical spirituality. Songs about ‘reaching up and touching the hem of his garment’ have replaced the Christ-centered hymnody. In one ditty, worshipers are supposed to hear the brush of angels’ wings as evidence that ‘the presence of the Lord is in this place.’ This is the sort of thing Spielberg might direct! It has nothing to do with Christ or the cross or union with Christ. It’s all about my personal moment with the ‘naked God.’ I can well remember waiting in some worship contexts, for that moment, that spiritual ‘buzz’ for which I was searching, during the fourth or fifth chorus of ‘Alleluia.’ There is nothing about Christ in that chorus, just the repetition of the new password. It really is a dangerous shift, brothers and sisters, and we must protest that it is not the worship of God as he has come to us in Christ. Many today have made the Holy Spirit so central and the Christian life so central that Christ is no longer the only Mediator.”

–Michael Horton