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Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by winner01(m): 11:06am On Oct 01, 2016 |
www.nairaland.com/attachments/4302637_screenshot20160929at12941pm_jpeg0b7f5588a43916b42f28217347a0c319 Very recently I have been privileged to have met Steven Bancarz. What a remarkable man he is and what a powerful testimony he has! I really recommend checking out his video testimony of which I have shared with family and friends. He has also happily agreed to let me do an interview with him that I will be posting in the coming weeks. The long story short, 23 year old Canadian and former New Age writer Steven Bancarz, who amassed a fortune from his New Age website, became a born-again Christian last year September. His goal is to now expose the dark philosophy of New Age Spirituality for what it really is, namely that of a spiritual deception. Remarkably, having built his own website widely known as Spirit Science and Metaphysics as well as his own online presence, he was averaging 40 000 USD per month from ad revenue alone! Moreover, according to Bancarz the series Ancient Aliens had a significant impact on his religious views, “I can pinpoint it from having started when I was exposed to a program on the History Channel called “Ancient Aliens… It teaches ancient astronaut theory that mythologies and fables from the ancient world are really of ancient man being visited by extraterrestrial beings from outer space who they then describe as being gods.” According to Bancarz this is very much pertinent to New Age topics such as the non-locality of consciousness and information involving ancient wisdom. Having dabbled with this he also warmed up to philosophers who mostly engaged in matters pertaining to science and occultism, “That was right up my alley because it made me feel as though there was a method of spirituality and a method of living out ones spirituality that was confirmable through the scientific method, through science. And that made more sense to me holistically than any of the other world religions.” Bancarz started his own Facebook page and also began writing popular and widely read articles on New Age spirituality. Not long afterwards did he make key connections in the online New Age community. His website and online writings were so widely read that from the ad revenue he was able able to purchase his own sports car and house at age 22! However, Bancarz tells us that towards the end of 2015 he had a dramatic personal experience with Jesus that fully transformed his life. One night on the balcony of the house he had purchased, he made a prayer out of his desperation,“Every ounce of my strength was ground to nothing, and I said ‘OK, that’s it. I’m done. I’m done playing games, God. I just want you. Jesus, I want you in your fullness… And that’s when I just fell at His feet.” After this radical experience he went on to glorify Jesus by shutting down his latest project for his website even though it would have brought in a hefty income from ad revenue alone. If one doubts his sincerity it would do well for her to know that Bancarz even went as far as to sell his house and sports car. Moreover, since he stopped writing New Age articles he had cut his profits by 97%. www.nairaland.com/attachments/4302642_s31035770editedit_jpeg38b817b175d81ae6603012e9cd6ef4d6 According to Bancarz God then led him to a local Pentecostal church at which he fully renounced his New Age philosophy and beliefs. He recalls that after the minister had begun praying for him he became dizzy and started breathing heavily. At one point he felt paralyzed from his elbows down to his wrists and hands. This, he believed, demonstrated the darkness in which he had been living as well as sharing with others. Bancarz, however, has truly been amazed at how God has used what was initially evil to advance his kingdom, “God is giving me the discerning of spirits to be able to rightly judge what material and what spirits are not of God, and to show me how to best expose them.” www.nairaland.com/attachments/4302645_s29218769editedit_png3b5789a60b67b2dfbb0cdf569f29a143 Bancarz had since been reading the Bible diligently and says that Christians must “hold everything up to the light of Scripture because all Scripture is God-breathed. And that [standard] is the Words of Jesus Christ Himself and the words of the Apostles themselves.” Bancarz’s message is thus clear. He wants to share with believers and unbelievers alike that God is truly knowable and that all of us can come into a personal relationship with him that is supernatural, “The minute that we encounter the living, breathing presence of the Holy Spirit everything changes. And I would encourage people to pursue that, to pursue God in His fullness and to seek Jesus as He really is rather than who we want Him to be. The minute that we do that it is His promise in scripture that He will make Himself known to us… you don’t need a certain level of intelligence, you don’t need to be in a certain state of consciousness, you don’t need a certain level of knowledge, all you need is a heart that hungers for the reality of God. And Jesus is the real deal.” Bancarz leaves us with these amazing thoughts, “God is not some kind of energy blob. God is not some kind of impersonal force… or some kind of void. God is a personal being who loves you, sees you, and has a purpose for you, a will for you. And it is a promise from him that if you seek him diligently that he will reveal himself to you.” I forward all readers to Bancarz’s new website, Exposing the New Age, which is a Christian apologetics effort that aims to expose New Age Spirituality and false claims made about Jesus Christ. source:https://jamesbishopblog./2016/09/29/former-new-ager-steven-bancarzs-radical-conversion-to-follow-jesus/ 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by winner01(m): 11:16am On Oct 01, 2016 |
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Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by KingEbukasBlog(m): 11:36am On Oct 01, 2016 |
winner01: This man is the white ifenes ![]() ![]() Ifenes there is hope for you ooo 2 Likes |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by 4everGod1: 12:56pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog: the man is a whife hybrid of Ifenes. Ifenes has local content so yes there is hope for ifenes too. 3 Likes |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by winner01(m): 5:30pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
Ifeness coman see your breed oo ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by DeSepiero(m): 5:42pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
Winner01, I hope some popular NL atheists (e.g Seun, Hardmirror) can convert to theism owing to your multiple conversion threads. ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by winner01(m): 5:49pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
DeSepiero:I dont do this solely for that purpose. I post this testimonies to the glory of God. If this was a christian section, ill still post testimonies. We dont give testimonies in church because of unbelievers. 2 Likes |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by winner01(m): 7:35am On Oct 02, 2016 |
Great God. 1 Like |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by winner01(m): 1:34pm On Oct 02, 2016 |
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Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by ifenes(m): 1:11pm On Oct 04, 2016 |
4everGod1: With all these threads you open I doubt you have much time for Jesus |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by Anas09: 1:28pm On Oct 04, 2016 |
winner01:Satan keep getting disappointments. Many more shall escape. |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by Anas09: 1:31pm On Oct 04, 2016 |
winner01:Shout it loud. We don't give testimonies in church because of umbelievers. 1 Like |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by Anas09: 1:34pm On Oct 04, 2016 |
ifenes:You wouldnt know that this is service to God. Why do you even care if he has time or not for Jesus? Has Jesus called you to complain? 1 Like |
Re: Super Rich Former New Ager, Steven Bancarz’s, Radical Conversion To Follow Jesus by 4everGod1: 1:58pm On Oct 04, 2016 |
ifenes: With all this stalking you have been doing up and down nairaland I doubt you have any time for your new age beliefs...... The guy in the OP is a perfect original while you are a copy.... |
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