Seer Training: Christian or mysticism

A church in Scotland which is part of a mainstream denomination is running a course on Seer Training. Is this forward thinking or a route into occultic mysticism?

We live in a day of both great threat and great opportunity.

Churches are haemhorraging members, our nation is now post-Christian and we are seeing new government legislation coming onto force which is making it more and more difficult for believers at all levels to maintain a solid Christian witness. A post-war baby boom of church leaders is heading for retirement whilst Christian denominations increasingly are following the secular tide into condoning and encouraging immoral models of relationship.

But change also presents great opportunity. Whenever prevailing and historical models are threatened, the loss of the status quo can produce a vacuum into which new things can flow and new paradigms emerge.

The question today is whether what is 'new' is biblical or a return to mystic and deviant practices.

The following is the blurb attaching to a forthcoming course in Scotland for Christians.

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The Seer Course

The Seer Course will walk you through the ancient Hebrew definition of the seeing gift and how it applies to you personally today. In this course, you will learn practical applications of how to function as a seer, how God wants to communicate with you as a seer, and how He taught Jeremiah to see.

You will grow in metaphorical (sic) [should be 'metaphysical'? - Ed.] understanding and be amazed as you realize all the implications and possibilities of this gift. Most importantly, this course will change your life at a day-to-day level and radically heighten your relationship with God.

The Seer Course addresses these questions and more:

How do you know you have this gift?
How do you know you’re not just making it up?
Does seeing include more than just spiritual sight?
How do you operate as a seer?
What are orbs, lights, and strange things you think you see?
What is the seer’s role in relationship with God and others?

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What is indisputable in the age in which we live is that 'new' things are emerging at an unprecedented rate and the need for spiritual discernment is critical in our time. The word of God teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. But these things can reappear clad in a new (different) set of clothes, so the need for continual vigilance is paramount. And the most subtle forms of deception is counterfeit of the real thing. The danger is even greater when there is (some) truth mixed in with error.

But in these issues, the days of fence-sitting and abstract philosophising are over. Opportunity or threat? It's make your mind up time.

Watchman, 28/08/2009