Below is a summary of what has been covered in this chapter on the apostasy and spiritualism that has entered the SDA Church.

• Pantheism and panentheism.
• School accreditation.
• New Theology.
• Worship services that are irreverent and include:
  
  
  • dramatic lighting, drums, rock and rap music, contemporary gospel, modern praise, jazz, country, and opera
  • drama and mimes
  • liturgical dancing
  • hand raising and applause
  • casual communion that tries to copy the Eucharist
  • dressing improperly
  • irreverent sermons and baptisms.


• Ministry using clowns, face painting, puppets, etc.
• Rushing baptisms.
• Forms of hypnotism.
• Practicing New Age, mystical ideas such as meditation and contemplative prayer.
• Prayer walking, prayer warriors, prayer stations, prayer labyrinth, and other unbiblical forms of prayer.
• Ecumenical and interfaith relations, including a focus on the ecology movement and politics.
• Love of money, popularity, worldly power and success, entertainment, comedy, sports, and competition.
• Using the wrong type of humor.
• A false belief regarding the Godhead, such as there is no Holy Spirit as a separate Person.
• The Moral Influence theory that God does not kill or destroy.
• The belief that God cannot be called by that name.
• Using slang expressions with God’s name.
• Not having the fruits of the Holy Spirit and not hearing His voice.
• Being a hypocrite full of pride.
• Reading books of a “new order,” including magazines, websites, etc.
• Using unreliable Bible versions.
• Misapply and misinterpret God’s Word.
• Not looking for Christ’s imminent return.
• Breaking the Ten Commandments, such as not keeping the Sabbath holy.
• Worshiping gods of this world, including the Hollywood-type actors.
• Having “cherished idols.”
• Calling evil good and good evil.
• Keeping Jewish traditions, holidays, feast days, and lunar Sabbaths.
• Adding man’s opinions to God’s Word.
• Setting dates for Christ’s Second Coming.
• Rejecting Ellen White as God’s messenger and ignoring her writings.
• Rejecting God’s other prophets and messengers.
• Compromising standards.
• Arguing over finite details.
• The Bible Code.
• The study and practice of unbiblical ancient rituals.
• Wasting valuable time examining old studies of the seven thunders, (Jeff Pippenger) etc., which are not important to salvation.
• Not following the health message.
• Misuse of money, time, and talents.
• Following leaders or peers rather than personal study and following Jesus.
• Not warning others of sin.
• Honor of men; awards.
• Disfellowshipping the faithful instead of those who continue in sin.
• Pastors not visiting or praying with church members.
• Focusing on trivia and trivial matters that are not important to salvation.
• Living a homosexual lifestyle.
• Familiarity with the opposite sex outside of marriage.
• Divorcing for unbiblical reasons.
• Calling the SDA Church “Babylon.”
• Reapplying past events in the Bible to the future, such as a prophetic day equaling one literal day after 1844.
• Participating in a counterfeit latter rain.
• Promoting or practicing magic.
• Dancing.
• Use of secular psychology and counseling, personality typing, philosophy and theosophy.
• Promoting and using worldly resources and programs.
• Wrong type of confessing to others.
• Evolution.
• Charismatic “speaking in tongues” and “holy laughter.”
• Improper use of laying on of hands.
• Small group meetings that use wrong practices.
• False healings, miracles, and “deliverance.”
• Love of feasts, parties, festivals, and worldly celebrations, such as Lent.
• Focus on modern art.
• Special offers and sales.
• Focus on the wrong type of community service and social justice.
• Downplaying doctrines for the sake of unity, etc.
• The belief that there will be no Sunday laws.

Until these have been repented of, the SDA Church cannot receive the latter rain. As SDAs, if we value our assurance of living throughout eternity with God, it is imperative that we question sources and resources. Because something comes from SDA institutions does not make it safe for our spirituality.