"Another Jesus" Calling
Warren Smith

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Warren B. Smith’s “Another Jesus” Calling is a critical response to Sarah Young’s devotional book Jesus Calling. Smith argues that Young’s book does not simply offer devotional reflections, but presents “messages” supposedly received directly from Jesus. His concern is that this method shifts Christian authority away from Scripture and toward subjective spiritual impressions. The expanded second edition is titled “Another Jesus” Calling: How Sarah Young’s False Christ is Deceiving the Church and is published by Lighthouse Trails.

Smith’s main argument is that Jesus Calling is spiritually dangerous because it was influenced by God Calling, a book he and other critics identify with New Age-style “channeled” messages. Smith, who writes from the perspective of a former New Age participant, sees a troubling similarity between New Age spirituality and the way Jesus Calling presents extra-biblical words from “Jesus.”

The book focuses on several concerns:

Extra-biblical revelation
Smith argues that Christians should not seek new messages from Jesus beyond Scripture. He believes Young’s method encourages readers to trust inward impressions as though they are Christ’s own words.

A different portrayal of Jesus
The title comes from Paul’s warning about “another Jesus” in 2 Corinthians 11:4. Smith claims that the “Jesus” speaking in Jesus Calling often sounds more like a mystical, therapeutic, New Age figure than the biblical Christ.

Contemplative prayer
Smith warns against forms of prayer that emphasize stillness, silence, inner listening, and mystical experience when those practices become detached from Scripture. He sees this as an opening for deception.

New Age influence in the church
The broader concern of the book is that New Age ideas can enter evangelical Christianity through soft devotional language, especially when believers are not carefully comparing everything to Scripture.

Discernment and Scripture
Smith repeatedly argues that spiritual experiences must be tested by the Bible. The book closes with appendices emphasizing biblical warnings about deception, the true gospel, and discernment.

This book is a warning that Sarah Young’s devotional approach blurs the line between Scripture and private revelation, normalizes mystical listening practices, and introduces ideas that resemble New Age spirituality more than biblical Christianity.

Other books by this author:

A Wonderful Deception
Deceived on Purpose
False Christ Coming: Does Anybody Care?
The Light That Was Dark
Reinventing Jesus Christ: The New Gospel

Other audio by this author:

Warren Smith speaks at Resurrection Life of Jesus Church

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A Wonderful Deception
A Time of Departing
Deceived on Purpose
Faith Undone
False Christ Coming: Does Anybody Care?
For Many Shall Come In My Name
Out of India
Reinventing Jesus Christ: The New Gospel
The Dark Side of the Purpose Driven Church
The Light That Was Dark
Warren Smith speaks at RLJC

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