Week 01 | Hidden Circles | The Lust for Power

City Church pastor, Jim Simpson, begins a new series on Christianity and the Occult for the month of October entitled Hidden Circles. Today’s sermon is entitled The Lust for Power about the Occult and its influence on Christian millennials and Gen Z. Can you be a faithful follower of Christ and engage in occult practices? Do Christians unknowingly participate in pagan practices? These questions and more are answered in today’s message.

Scripture from this message:
Luke 21:25-33
Proverbs 19:5
1 Corinthians 5:1-2
1 Timothy 4:1-3
Deuteronomy 18:9-12
Galatians 5:17-24

Links from this message:
The Dungeons & Dragons Panic Of The 1980s Explained: https://www.grunge.com/907328/the-dungeons-dragons-panic-of-the-1980s-explained/
Satanic Panic: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic-panic.html
Satanic Panic (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
Today 1.5 Million people identify as witches. That’s more witches than Presbyterians.
https://christianaction.org/top-stories-of-the-day/witches-now-outnumber-presbyterians-in-america/
Between 1990 and 2008 Wicca grew from 8,000 participant to 340,000
Number Of Witches Rises Dramatically Across U.S. As Millennials Reject Christianity (newsweek.com): https://www.newsweek.com/witchcraft-wiccans-mysticism-astrology-witches-millennials-pagans-religion-1221019
Between 2001 and 2021 Paganism grew from 134,000 to nearly 2 million.
Witches on the rise in US as TikTok, social media brings it mainstream (usatoday.com): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/28/celtic-festival-samhain-2021-celebration-wicca-witches/6182226001/
Videos with the hashtag #witchtok have amassed more than 20 billion views.
Witches on the rise in US as TikTok, social media brings it mainstream (usatoday.com):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/28/celtic-festival-samhain-2021-celebration-wicca-witches/6182226001/
In 2017 a Pew Research Center Survey found that 68% of Americans hold to “New Age” beliefs including astrology, psychics, and the presence of spiritual energy in inanimate objects.
Witches on the rise in US as TikTok, social media brings it mainstream (usatoday.com): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/28/celtic-festival-samhain-2021-celebration-wicca-witches/6182226001/

City Church is a Bible-believing community for the people of Savannah and across the globe. We exist to make much of Jesus and to represent Him well in our community through authentic Throne Room-style worship and praise and expository teaching from the Bible.

Services are in person and online every Sunday at 10:30 am.

In-person services are held at 1624 E 38th St, Savannah, GA 31404. We hold prayer services in-person on Tuesdays at 6 pm. City Church Red hosts a monthly food bank for the community on the 3rd Saturday of the month at 10:00 am.