Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 391 pages
• Published by: Destiny Image Publishers
• Edition: 1st Edition May 1, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0768423503
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0768423501
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics contains more than seventy photos, illustrations, and biographies of men and women whose lives have demonstrated the phenomenal throughout the ages. Let their stories inspire you to join their ranks as part of this coming revival generation.

Reader Reviews
With few exceptions, most Christians are hungry for a true move of God. Many of us read the book of Acts and we long for the presence and power of God as seen in the early Church. We want the miracles and we want the thousands of conversions but do we want to pay the price? Are we prepared for the suffering, the persecution, the murders, and the attacks from Satan and his demonic forces? In this book, John Crowder believes we are living in Acts again. In this book Crowder presents story after story that are incredible! Angels, healings, prophetic visions, dreams, and words of knowledge are all profoundly wrote about by Crowder. The book is written to give the reader a passion for the mystical. Crowder believes that the Church history is full of people who were "mystics" such as St. John of the Cross, Madame Gunyon, and modern day people such as Todd Bentley, Bill Johnson, Bob Jones, William Branham, and Oral Roberts. While the book is full of interesting accounts from both the life and ministry of Crowder and his New Mystics and many others, the book is lacking in biblical exegesis. Crowder rarely interacts with Scripture unless it is to back up a point or an experience. In fact, Crowder seems to me to argue against deep personal study of the Bible in favour of a mystical communion with God. For instance, when Crowder writes on prayer he teaches from the new age Thomas Merton and contemplative prayer. Crowder believes that the mystic Merton and others found a powerful tool for true praying in contemplative prayer that the Church has lost. Crowder never examines the Bible for contemplative prayer but simply favours it because of its mystical roots and where it leads. He even favours out-of-body experiences from contemplative prayer. I can not recommend this book. It is simply not biblical. It is not biblical both because of what it teaches and the fact that Crowder does not truly dive into the Bible. I am all for what the Puritans called, "experiential Christianity" but not wild mysticism without a solid biblical foundation. There are better books on prayer (E.M. Bounds, Samuel Chadwick, John Wesley, Andrew Murray), on devotion (Leonard Ravenhill, Oswald Chambers, Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur, John Piper), and on experiencs based on the authority of the Bible (Ray Comfort, Anthony Palma, French Arrington, Douglas Jacoby) that are out there.