This work attempts to help Christian readers appreciate the importance of spiritual discernment and help them realize that it is not an activity which can be exclusively left to church leaders. An important assumption is that any form of human or spiritual deception can have devastating consequences at the personal, congregational and wider social level.
Also provided are user-friendly objective tests to help readers too assess spiritual phenomena for themselves They are also given the tools to diagnosis any manipulation of scripture. This work can readily be viewed as a guide, enabling believers to apply the instruction of 1 John 4:1. Articles exploring such topics as Christian Fanaticism, the characteristics of false prophets and the anti-Christ are also included.