Abstract
This article investigates the biblical motivation that is given for the secular idea of the so-called spiritual law of attraction to become part of Christian doctrine. In 2010 Pastor At Boshoff of the Christian Revival Church (CRC) preached two sermons on the law of attraction in which he claimed it as a powerful principle in the Word of God. According to him this biblical �law� provides human beings with physical manifestations of their thoughts and words. The idea to create one�s own favourable future through the law of attraction flows from a New Age worldview and is similar to the positive confession doctrine taught by popular Word of Faith teachers. Boshoff�s claim regarding the law of attraction cannot be deduced from the key Scripture passages he uses, which reflects an unfounded use of Scripture to promote this idea.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article challenges the secular infiltration of the Law of Attraction in the church. This is important since the so-called Law of Attraction was preached by Pastor A. Boshoff of the CRC. Many of his listeners embrace his teaching although it reflects a poor exposition and application of Scripture.
Highlights
This article focuses on the question of whether the Christian worldview1 provides a place for the so-called spiritual law of attraction
It was found that the law of attraction originated outside of the Christian church in a New Age environment
16.Ryken (2006:13, 15) describes the basic Christian worldview as a God-given, Biblebased, Christ-centred worldview, which begins with the person who is the notsilent God
Summary
This article focuses on the question of whether the Christian worldview1 provides a place for the so-called spiritual law of attraction. One’s heart is releasing and attracting things, people and circumstances into one’s life (Boshoff 2010c). The heart as the intellectual, moral and emotional centre, will determine the path someone will follow, but that does not mean that the heart literally produce one’s future by attracting people, things or circumstances as Boshoff (2010b) is teaching6.
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