The self-reliance false gospel is all about pursuing our individual happiness rather than our holiness. It’s about how to have our best life now because this is what Jesus wants. Melissa Dougherty

Self-help can be a repackaged gospel of works. You continually strive to be the best version of yourself. Melissa Dougherty

Here’s the problem. Identity in anything other than Jesus alone will leave us empty and longing for mire. Those in the LGBTQ+ movement are looking for their identity in themselves. They think this will fulfil them. They have it backwards. Melissa Dougherty

It is ironic that today, in many cases, for someone to be their authentic self, they have to deny reality to do that. They have to be fake to be authentic. Ain’t that a knee slapper? Melissa Dougherty

God’s Word teaches us that truth is real and Jesus is the embodiment of everything true. Follow him faithfully. Melissa Dougherty

Jesus said Satan is the father of lies. But if there is no truth there can be no lies. If there are no lies, then Jesus was wrong and Satan is off the hook. Melissa Dougherty

Relativism is like a symphony with no composer or sheet music. It’s just noise. Melissa Dougherty

New Thought tells us to embrace the truth of our own divinity. We are the way, the truth, the life. Any other view is an illusion. Melissa Dougherty

In New Thought, then, truth is subjective, which is supposed to be freeing and inclusive. Yet as our culture becomes more relativistic, statistics measuring depression, suicide, and anxiety skyrocket. Ideas have consequences. Your truth and the truth are not necessarily the same thing. Melissa Dougherty

In New Thought, the Bible is just one of many spiritual books containing truth. It’s an esoteric book that has hidden codes in it to uncover special spiritual laws. It’s incomplete and full of errors, but it’s a sacred text to be honoured and applied in a metaphysical way. Melissa Dougherty