Many of us who are referred to as watchdogs have been attempting to warn you of this evangelical return to the bondage of apostate Roman Catholicism for some time now. Well, thanks to men like Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker Richard Foster and his buddy Brian McLaren, a leading spiritual director/guru in the Emergent Church, we now have “Protestant” evangelicals following in the antibiblical monastic traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.

Christian Entropy Christianity Today reports:

A growing number of evangelicals—younger evangelicals in particular—are maturing the movement in another way. They are taking their newfound love affair with Christian tradition and the early church beyond the realm of books and talk and into their churches and Christian lives.

Covenant’s Kenneth Stewart noted at the Wheaton conference that more and more traditionally evangelical congregations are now experimenting with advent candles, sampling practices associated with Lent, and marking Holy Week with special services like Tenebrae—an evening service featuring songs, readings, and the gradual extinguishing of lights to represent Christ’s death. (Online source)

Here’s a little news flash from Apprising Ministries for these non-protesting Protestant evangelicals with their whoring after apostate Romish bondage and these so-called spiritual disciplines. Martin Luther—whatever one thinks of him—was certainly a main leader in the Protestant Reformation raised up by the Lord to return His Church to Biblical purity.

Here is what Luther had to say concerning people such as these mystic monk-wannabes like Shane Claiborne in postevangelicalism and their emerging church:

Idolatry is all manner of seeming holiness and worshipping, let these counterfeit spiritualities shine outwardly as glorious and fair as they may; in a word, all manner of devotion in those that we would serve God without Christ the Mediator, his Word and command. In popedom it was held a work of the greatest sanctity for the monks to sit in their cells and meditate of God, [solitude] and of his wonderful works; to be kindled with zeal, kneeling on their knees, praying, and having their imaginary contemplations of celestial objects, with such supposed devotion, that they wept for joy. In these their conceits, they banished all desires and thoughts of women, and what else is temporal and evanescent. They seemed to meditate only of God, and of his wonderful works.

Yet all these seeming holy actions of devotion, which the wit and wisdom of man holds to be angelical sanctity, are nothing else but works of the flesh. All manner of religion, where people serve God without his Word and command, is simply idolatry, and the more holy and spiritual such a religion seems, the more hurtful and venomous it is; for it leads people away from the faith of Christ, and makes them rely and depend upon their own strength, works, and righteousness. In like manner, all kinds of orders of monks, fasts, prayers, hairy shirts, the austerities of the Capuchins, who in popedome are held to be the most holy of all, are mere works of the flesh; for the monks hold they are holy, and shall be saved, not through Christ, whom they view as a severe and angry judge, but through the rules of their order.
(Table Talk AD 1626)

See also:

MEDITATING ON CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR MYSTIC TEACHING COMES FROM: RICHARD FOSTER

RICK WARREN GUILTY FOR ENDORSING RICHARD FOSTER AND HIS REIMAGINED GNOSTIC MYSTICISM