Author Randy Alcorn has been hesitant to express his concerns about the best-seller devotional Jesus Calling by author Sarah Young. But given its popularity and its recent win as 2018 Christian Book of the Year, Alcorn is now speaking out.
The book is not full of heresies, he clarified. But he indicated that it is wrong for Young to portray her thoughts as if they were the real words of Jesus Christ.
While noting that he does not want to argue that “God doesn’t or can’t speak to you or others,” his big problem with Jesus Calling — which combined with its spinoffs have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide — is that Young presents text as if it were Jesus’ direct words for others.
“The biggest problem with Jesus Calling is very simple: Jesus did not speak these words. If these were His words, then Jesus Calling would be Scripture, which is by definition the words of God,” the author explained.
“So if it’s not (and it isn’t) on an inspired and trustworthy level like Scripture itself, then it’s making a false claim. In fact, regardless of whether it’s biblically sound, it’s an entire book built on falsehood.”
According to the book’s description, the book is a daily devotional based on what she heard from God in her quiet times.
A publicist for Harper Collins responded to Alcorn’s criticism when contacted by The Christian Post, by pointing to Young’s explanation in the introduction to her 2004 devotional.
In the introduction, Young says, “I decided to ‘listen’ with pen in hand, writing down whatever I ‘heard’ in my mind. As J. I. Packer wrote in his book Your…
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