Pastor Paul Taylor of Rivers Crossing Community Church (Mason, Ohio) repeats erroneous information on the history of the Enneagram
Someone just called my attention to a sermon on the Enneagram in a church called the Rivers Crossing Church. Never heard of the guy. I repeat what he says with running commentary just because it is so typical of the false things often said. When the pastor was informed of the problems related to his historical claims a couple of days (not by me but by another) he responded with the following theologically dubious brush off: "While we don’t want you to ignore the convictions that the Holy Spirit has given you, we also encourage you not to let your convictions become an obstacle to what God is doing in the lives of others."* This raises the obvious question: If the convictions really do come from the Holy Spirit, then how can expressing them get in the way of God's work? In any case, the email he brushed off included a warning that the claim about Evagrius was false, which was a statement about history not a conviction from the Holy Spirit. Anyway, just for the re