Category: Dallas Willard

RICHARD FOSTER FORMING PROTESTANT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION SPIRITUALITY »

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! 
 
Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.
 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked [...]

“INWARD JOURNEY” ESPOUSED BY RICHARD FOSTER IS A FORM OF DIVINATION »

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! 
 
The following quote is from the latest Critcal Issues Commentary article Richard Foster — Celebration Of Deception Evangelical Mysticism by Bob DeWaay, pastor of  Twin City Fellowship and highlights another aspect of a growing rebellion within mainstream evangelicalism against Sola Scriptura. Within DeWaay sends a clear Biblical warning concerning this core teaching of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism from Living [...]

GARY GILLEY: SPIRITUAL FORMATION SYSTEM OF RICHARD FOSTER DERIVED FROM COUNTER-REFORMATION MYSTICS »

The Disciplines recommended by Foster, as well as his whole spiritual formation system, are derived from the mystics.  His list of recommended spiritual masters is witness to this:  Ignatius of Loyola (p. 66); Teresa of Avila (p. 166); Jeremy Taylor; William Law; Dallas Willard (pp. 24, 80, 153); Henri Nouwen (pp. 64-65, 110); Father Anthony [...]

PICK YOUR SWORD OF THE SPIRIT BACK UP! »

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!

 
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their [...]

MOVE OVER PASTORS FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS/GURUS »

Over at the online apologetics and discernment ministry Slice of Laodicea pastor Larry DeBruyn has a short piece concerning the plague of so-called “spiritual directors” currently infecting the visible church:
Regardless of what you might think of the operation of spiritual gifts—whether all of them, some of them, or none of them are operative today—we should [...]

BOB DEWAAY ON DONALD WHITNEY AND SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES »

In his latest article at Christian Issues Commentary, which is a must read, pastor Bob DeWaay weighs in on “spiritual disciplines” as it concerns Donald Whitney and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
DeWaay notes the close similarity between Whitney’s teachings and those of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. Within DeWaay’s scholarly piece he correctly points out that the subjective list [...]

DALLAS WILLARD SAYS IT’S POSSIBLE TO BE SAVED AND NOT KNOW JESUS »

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!

 

They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;  There is no one who does good. (Ps. 53:1)
“But I Just Don’t Feel God Should Be Like That; So Therefore, He Isn’t”
The following comes from the personal website of Dallas Willard and is a vivid illustration of why the rejection of Sola Scriptura is so eternally fatal. But this kind of [...]

MAN-CENTERED GOSPEL VS. GOD-CENTERED GOSPEL »

A man-centered gospel is the belief that the determining factor in whether or not a man is eternally saved, in the end, relies (at some level) upon an act of his own will i.e. human decision. This is often called synergism because it is thought to be a cooperative effort between God and man. While [...]

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON »

They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6)
“But Don’t Go Confusing Me With The Facts; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind!”
Apprising Ministries, in the time we have left, will continue alerting the Body of Christ to the dangers of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) with its chief practice Contemplative/Centering [...]

EMERGING EASTERN-STYLE MEDITATION FOR GLOBAL PEACE…AND WORSE… »

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:5-6)
Eastern-Style Meditation As The Bridge To Unite All Religions And Transform Mankind
Building on It’s High Time To Realize [...]

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