My Own Personal Jesus

Our culture has long been wrestling over the idea of separation of church and state, but few seem to recognize the existence of what Carl Teichrib terms “Spiritual Politics” in chapter 12 of his book, Game of Gods. Spiritual Politics is often on public display in the daily news cycle today but is done in such a way that people are distracted from actually seeing what is truly being promoted right in front of our eyes. An example from a short five years ago is the “mostly peaceful” #BLM riots. The media and most viewers bought the idea that all the riots and violence was brought about to protest the death of George Floyd while he was in police custody. Yet Floyd’s death was simply used to slyly introduce a new and dark spiritual political movement, as we pointed out in “The Occult Religion of #Black Lives Matter | Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc.” It should be noted that religious beliefs often shape people’s political views. What people did not realize is that BLM was promoting a dark occultic religion. When BLM told people to speak aloud the names of the dead, the crowd was unknowingly calling up the spirits of the dead to participate and help in “doing the work.” See our article above.

Carl opens chapter 12 of Game of Gods with a 1983 quote from Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author Hans Küng:

After intra-Protestant and intra-Christian ecumenism we have irrevocably reached the third ecumenical dimension, ecumenism of the world’s religions!¹Hans Küng, Preface, The Meaning of Other Faiths, by Willard G. Oxtoby(TheWestminster Press, 1983), p.10, as quoted by Carl Teichrib in Game of Gods, Whitemud House Publishing, 2918 p. 379

Ah, blessed ecumenism. A tool for neutering or altogether removing essential doctrinal beliefs to more easily persuade various religious groups that we all basically believe the same things. Throw out essential Christian Doctrine and Give Peace a Chance.

Robert Muller, assistant secretary-general of the UN, believed that in order to bring peace to the planet, we needed a political entity to act as the one-world government. That would be the UN. He and others realized they would not be able to cobble together a one-world government without having a one-world religion, i.e., one-world spirituality. Looking back to the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religions held in Chicago, IL, Muller and his merry band put together a Centennial Parliament of the World’s Religions, also in Chicago, in 1993, where they introduced The Global Ethic edited by none other than Hans Küng along with German Catholic theologian Karl-Josef Kuschel. The word itself and the idea of TRUTH, especially absolute “Gospel truth,” as Evangelical Christians embrace, was openly mocked at most of the seminars and plenary sessions. In fact, the absolute truth of say, Christianity, was the only religious TRUTH that was seen as ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE and should actually be scorned. The Parliament was pretty clear that there is NO TRUTH that is ABSOLUTELY TRUE except for the TRUTH that there IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH. That, my friends, is ABSOLUTELY TRUE. All in attendance were expected to sign on to the Global Ethic. However, it did not go over QUITE as well as expected. The desire for international peace was largely present, but the idea of attendees giving up their spiritual distinctives wasn’t fully embraced, and it seems neither was peace and harmony really:

It wasn’t long into that Parliament in 1993 that human nature kicked right in when a fight broke out between the Hindus and Sikhs during a main session. The Wiccans jumped into action and started a circle dance to bring back harmony and oneness. Harmony and peace were restored with the arrival of the Chicago Police who did indeed bring order to the chaos. And it wasn’t just the Muslims and Hindus that had issues. The Jewish contingent left when it was announced that the racist and anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan would be speaking. I guess we can’t expect perfect oneness overnight.²The World Will Live as One | Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc

As you can imagine, there were not many Evangelical Christians in attendance, except for a small band of us who went purely to peaceably interact with the people of other religions. And that we did and had some good conversations, which we can only hope bore fruit. But there were no fisticuffs or harsh words from us. We have already pointed out that the Parliament spent time in main sessions ridiculing the idea of truth, especially Christianity’s “Gospel truth.” Having said that, having a Jesus in the mix was OK with the ecumenists as long as it was a Jesus that could be remolded and shaped to fit the spirituality of each one present. You know, your own personal Jesus. Numerous revisions have since been made to The Global Ethic, and it is still the guiding document of the Parliament.

The common denominator in the above examples and many more that could be given is that spiritual politics is the mechanism being used to recreate the world in man’s own image. It is an attempt at building the Tower of Babel 2.0.  In the first attempt, they all spoke one language, and the leaders challenged everyone:

“Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4)

Muller and company are right. In order to achieve a one-world political system, a one-world religion is necessary and as we think about it, an international language would be helpful as well. In order to accomplish that, something has to be done with this divisive carpenter from Galilee named Jesus, Who not only believed there is a truth but claimed that He Was It! He indeed is “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” (1 Peter 2:8) The easiest way is to reduce Him to being little more than an example, a way shower, someone to look up to and imitate. Somone Who is loving but never judges sin.

An extremely talented and well-funded organization,³He Gets Us sent a recruitment letter to Doreen Virtue which states, “HE GETS US – the biggest donor-funded PSA campaign for Jesus in history… (1 Billion dollars will be allocated over the next 3 years!), copy on file He Gets Us was started in 2020 and launched their first ad in 2022. They had ads in the 2023 and 2024 Superbowl and had two in the 2025 Superbowl. One, “What is Greatness?” used the Johnny Cash version of the song Personal Jesus from British band Depeche Mode. The ad was touching, showing people in pain and despair and others coming to their aid in various ways. Natasha Crain comments on her X page in part:

As in the previous years, there will be Christians defending these ads as being helpful in generating interest from nonbelievers in learning more about Jesus. And as in the previous years, I am going to say that these ads are actually incredibly harmful to the cause of evangelism because the campaign reinforces what culture wants to believe about Jesus while leaving out what culture doesn’t want to believe. If culture’s wrong ideas about Jesus become more deeply seated due to a campaign like this, it simply makes it harder for biblically faithful Christians to share about the REAL Jesus—a Jesus people often don’t want to hear about. In particular, here are four things you should know about the ad. 

1. The ad centers around a question that is problematic in and of itself. The concern of Scripture, and therefore Jesus, is never what makes humans “great.” The concern of Scripture is who God is, what makes GOD great, who man is, what makes man FALLEN, how we can be reconciled to our Creator, and what God expects of us as His children once we put our trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Loving others—which is what the campaign is conflating with being “great”—is an outflowing of our love for God. As such, we serve others not because we can become great somehow ourselves, but because our good works can give glory to GOD (Matthew 5:16). The He Gets Us campaign continually has made Christianity centered around humans rather than God, and this year we’re seeing the same thing.

2. The song Personal Jesus problematically reinforces the idea that Jesus is just a good moral example. I’ve written extensively already at the links in the comments about how the campaign portrays a completely human Jesus—nothing more than an inspiring human who relates to our problems and cares a whole lot about a culturally palatable version of social justice. Culture likes that version of Jesus, so culture will also like this ad. The idea that Jesus is a great moral example and that we can literally be a personal Jesus to others by doing good works doesn’t tell nonbelievers something different than what they already believe. It simply reinforces the idea that we can be just like (a fully human) Jesus. To be clear, that’s different than the biblical belief that we do good works not because we can be the same as Jesus, but because those good works glorify God. That may seem like a subtle distinction, but it’s a critical one. Good works in and of themselves aren’t the goal, but one would certainly think that from this campaign.

As we look at their website or the About Us page, there is no indication that the Jesus they are offering is anything other than a good man, a moral model we can all emulate. There is really nothing a Progressive or a Panentheist like Richard Rohr or even an atheist “cultural Christian” like Richard Dawkins wouldn’t affirm. Is Jesus fully God? That lacks comment on the website. Is sexual immortality a problem or more importantly, (here we will introduce that dreaded “S” word) sin? It doesn’t appear so. In the “What is He Gets Us’ stance on the LGBTQ+ community?” link, they state, “Jesus loves gay people, and Jesus loves trans people,” which is true, but they somehow neglect that, like the woman at the well, although He didn’t condemn her, He also said, “Go and sin no more.” (John 8:1-11) Salvation was purchased by a loving Savior who lived a perfect, sinless life, died a sacrificial death, raised Himself from the dead, and freely offered it to those who would believe. However, that did not even merit a footnote for He Gets Us. Natasha Crain is correct:

that these ads are actually incredibly harmful to the cause of evangelism because the campaign reinforces what culture wants to believe about Jesus while leaving out what culture doesn’t want to believe.

He Gets Us is another example of spiritual politics at work. It is politically incorrect to point out that we are sinners in need of salvation. It is more politically palatable to offer a spirituality that teaches that we are okay but need to be better behaved. Unless they confess that Jesus died, was raised from the dead, and is YHWH (Romans 10:9-13; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4), they will be eternally separated from God, and no amount of being a better neighbor will mitigate that. Are they simply being comforted on their way to an eternity separated from God? The God Who is light, love and comfort for an eternity without any of them?Ω

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