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June 14, 2008
RICK WARREN SAYS “GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING” COMING
In the Foreword of William Webster’s very helpful 1996 book The Matthew 16 Controversy Dr. Tom Nettles, Professor of Historical Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes:
Recent years have seen an increase in serious attempts at achieving some reapprochement between Roman Catholics and Protestants…the current rapid breakdown in public morality has served as a fast-setting concrete poured into the cracks that still remain in the [Roman] Catholic/Protestant relationship…
[However i]gnoring differences, even temporarily, does nothing for the cause of truth in the long run and, in fact, gradually erodes the very moral foundation necessary for cultural righteousness. Pushing aside important differences makes the church more energetic about a moralism focused on man than true piety focused on God. This in turn creates a pragmatism, and eventually a relativism, that will destroy the love of truth and with it the sense of oughtness that gives perseverance to righteous action.” (10)
In this feature Apprising Ministries article you will see that this is precisely the flawed man-centered methodology that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren is currently pontificating.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 01:03 PM | Permalink
May 30, 2008
WHO IS RICHARD FOSTER?
Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring this to the attention of the Body of Christ. And one of the primary sources—if not the primary source—for this reimagined neo-pagan “Christian” mysticism infecting postevangelicalism and the Emerging Church is The Cult of Guru Richard Foster.
You need to know that this CSM has now also slithered into evangelicalism as well because right now Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic “Roshi” Richard Foster, with an able assist from ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard, is conditioning more and more mainstream evangelical pastors, leaders, and ministers (think frog in the kettle) through spurious Spiritual Formation (SF) courses in college and/or seminary to see this CSM as a viable approach to God. And AM reminds you that primary among the textbooks used in these SF classes, not only in SBC seminaries but in most evangelical schools, are works by Foster and Willard from which their so-called “spiritual disciplines” largely culled from heretical Roman Catholic and Quaker mystics is then taught.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 11:02 AM | Permalink
May 29, 2008
LEARN CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) THE SBC WAY WITH BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR JAN JOHNSON
In Part One of this series Apprising Ministries showed you that the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t even attempting to hide its open embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian.
With an able assist from ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard currently The Cult of Guru Richard Foster is conditioning more and more mainstream evangelical pastors, leaders, and ministers (think frog in the kettle) through spurious Spiritual Formation (SF) courses in college and/or seminary to see this CSM as a viable approach to God. And AM reminds you that primary among the textbooks used in these SF classes, not only in SBC seminaries but in most evangelical schools, are works by Willard and his associate Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic “Roshi” Richard Foster from which their so-called “spiritual disciplines” largely culled from heretical Roman Catholic and Quaker mystics is then taught.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 05:54 PM | Permalink
May 28, 2008
LEARN CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) THE SBC WAY WITH BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA
At the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of the Southern Baptist Convention there isn’t even an attempt to hide its openly embracing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. not Christian.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 01:23 PM | Permalink
May 23, 2008
APOSTASY, CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) IN THE SBC AND DISEASE IN THE CHURCH
In this feature piece Apprising Ministries will introduce the Body of Christ to an epidemic disease in the American Christian Church that might come to be referred to as: “Me-no-wanna-see-i-tus.” As one who has been an SBC pastor myself since 1994, this illness is particularly evident concerning my ongoing look at the growing influence of decidedly anti-Reformation Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) within the Southern Baptist Convention, which is the largest so-called “Protestant” evangelical denomination in the United States.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 08:55 PM | Permalink
May 20, 2008
CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) IN BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA (SBC)
This is an update and follow-up to the Apprising Ministries piece “From Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (SBC) All the Way to Renovare and Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster” originally posted 12/10/2006. Shortly after this article appeared the original links from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) website that were used within it suddenly disappeared as apparently BSCNC revamped their WebPages.
Let me also make sure to point out that as far as I know this had nothing to do with the AM piece but had simply been in the works anyway. My point here is that I am led of the Lord to look further into the encroachment of anti-Reformation Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) into the Southern Baptist Convention so it seems good to also revisit the BSCNC website once again.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 04:17 PM | Permalink
May 14, 2008
ROMAN CATHOLICISM SPAWNED THE CURRENT APOSTASY IN EVANGELICALISM
In the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (NA), “Declaration On The Relation Of The Church To Non-Christian Religions,” birthed from apostate Roman Catholicism we can trace the very rotten root of The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD) of postevangelicalism. And this document also spawned the current apostasy festering within evangelicalism as well.
For you see it was NA that would open the door for Trappist monk Thomas Merton, one of most highly prized Golden Buddhas of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, to openly pursue his own antibiblical interspiritual “dialogues.” As we point out below he wasn’t alone and, just as previously shown in the Apprising Ministries piece Doug Pagitt, Rob Bell, Dalai Lama and the Interspiritual Seeds of Compassion Event, this lunacy in the Lord’s Name is ongoing still.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 03:26 PM | Permalink
May 12, 2008
BRIAN MCLAREN: SPEAKING FOR SATAN
In this piece Apprising Ministries will show you why no genuine Christian denominations and churches should be inviting Brian McLaren, leading Guru of the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church, in to teach at any level whatsoever because he is actually speaking on behalf of Satan.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 06:23 PM | Permalink
May 04, 2008
SOMETHING DEFINITELY NOT RIGHT WITH NEW ORLEANS SEMINARY
Apprising Ministries is doing all that can be done to try and alert the Body of Christ to growing apostasy within the Southern Baptist Convention. Unfortunately it’s also the nature of the “game” that most will not listen, and especially not the postliberal leadership and the vipers in the Emerging Church who have been busy slithering back in after their divisive predecessors in the original Cult of Liberal Theology were once moved out years ago.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 08:47 PM | Permalink
May 02, 2008
SOMETHING NOT RIGHT WITH SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CROSSOVER ’08 (PART TWO)
Following the Lord’s command that “every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (see also—Matthew 18:16) in the first part of Something Not Right with Southern Baptist Convention Crossover ’08 I gave you a few solid examples as witnesses for my sincere concern that Gnostic neo-pagan Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) has slithered deep from its den in Hell on into the SBC. And if one makes the time to check my archive Southern Baptist Convention they will see this has been an issue Apprising Ministries has covered for some time now.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 04:40 PM | Permalink
