About
Melissa Dougherty is a Christian Artist and Apologist best known for her YouTube channel as an ex new ager.
My Testimony
Melissa has two Associates degrees, one in Early Childhood Multicultural Education, the other in Liberal Arts, and a Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Southern Evangelical Seminary. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Religious Studies as well. She resides with her husband of 14 years and two daughters in New Mexico where she pursues her online ministry and works as an artist.
Melissa was saved at 16 years old and her life dramatically changed as a result. However, one of the issues she ran into was that she had many questions about Christianity and the Bible and nobody around her could answer them for her. She didn't know it at the time, but she had a love for apologetics and a hunger for theology.
She struggled to find answers for years, and never found a solid foundation in the Bible. In this time, partly due to her biblical illiteracy, she adopted many new thought beliefs that she truly believed were Christian beliefs, especially since almost all the teachers she admired quoted the Bible and talked about Jesus. She believed in things like Christ Consciousness, the Law of Attraction, Pantheism, Channeling, Crystal energies, and more.
It wasn't until 2010, after she had her first child, when a very unexpected visit from two Jehovah's Witnesses caused her to research not only the Jehovah's Witness religion, but her own beliefs. It was during this time she discovered the terrible deception she'd been in. As a result, she pursued counter cult ministry to Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons and also taught Christians how to witness to them as well. Those tentative years and lessons she learned in that time were used greatly later on when she pursued online ministry as an ex new ager.
Melissa wants her content to reach a variety of people from the skeptic to the seasoned believer. Her focus is on reaching people through good theology, teaching about the new age and through her art, whether satire or painting. Her ministry revolves around loving God and loving people.
I BELIEVE the Scripture of the Old and New Testament are inspired by God and inerrant in the original text. Scripture is the supreme and final authority in faith and life. Scripture is useful to believers for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness.
I BELIEVE in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
I BELIEVE in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, and in His ascension to the right hand of the Father.
I BELIEVE in the deity of the Holy Spirit as a person distinct from the Father and Son, and possessing all of the divine attributes. He exalts Christ, convicts people of sin, and enlightens and empowers believers and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
I BELIEVE that man was created in the image of God and that the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam and was alienated from God. Only through faith, trusting in Christ alone for salvation, which was made possible by His death and resurrection, are we reconciled to God.
I BELIEVE in the eternal life of the saved and the eternal punishment of the lost.
I BELIEVE the Lord Jesus is coming again to this earth, personally, bodily, and visibly to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.