I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD. (Psalm 31:6, NASB)

These Opened The Mystical Door Of No Return

The September 2008 issue of Christianity Astray Today magazine is poised to bring favorable attention to The Cult Guru Richard Foster so here Apprising Ministries reminds you that Emergent Church Swami Brian Mclaren, who is friends with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster brought out an important fact in his earlier statement in The Emergent Mystique where he says Foster, and his friend Dallas Willard, “with their emphasis on spiritual disciplines,” they are also “key mentors for the emerging church” along with Guru McLaren himself.

So this means that Foster does minister to the evangelical community as a “key” spiritual guide in this cult of a postliberalism. However, at the same time in his modern Church Growth classic The Purpose Driven Church PDL Pope Rick Warren says that from “time to time God has raised up a parachurch movement to reemphasize a neglected purpose of the church.” Notice carefully here now that Warren has just said “God has raised up” these movements up for “a neglected purpose of the church.” This is very important as we then analyze what is to follow from Warren.

Church Growth Guru Warren then pronounces his blessing upon these movements as being “valid, and even helpful” in that these organizations can “focus on a single purpose.” We wouldn’t necessarily have a problem with the premise itself but Warren informs us that among these parachurch movements he’s discussing is what he calls The Discipleship/Spiritual Formation Movement. Warren tells us that:

A reemphasis on developing believers to full maturity has been the focus of this movement. Organizations such as the Navigators, Worldwide Discipleship, and Campus Crusade for Christ, and authors such as Waylon Moore, Gary Kuhne, Gene Getz, Richard Foster, and Dallas Willard have underscored the importance of building up Christians and establishing personal spiritual disciplines (126).

The Mystical Door To the Emergent Penetration Of The SBC

This endorsement from America’s Megapastor Rick Warren, a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary as is Foster and Emerging Church icon Rob Bell, would be a great assist in holding open the door for the Southern Baptist Convention to hop back on the road home to Rome accepting apostate Roman Catholicism as a viable expression of the Christian Church. It would also usher in an open attack on the Reformation from postevangelicalism, which was to be launched as a result of practicing the serpentine and spurious spirituality of men like Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster. And specifically this would be the repainted pietism of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism aka Spiritual Formation.

Take for example Spiritual Formation Survey And Contemplative Prayer In The Baptist State Convention Of North Carolina (SBC) . And although with all I’ve been through I’m not easily shocked I do have to admit I have been stunned by the almost total lack of response by anyone in NC period regarding this spiritual travesty. I’m thankful for a couple of tips concerning where this stuff has been infiltrating BSCNC but I’m appalled that this spiritual lunacy can be thoroughly exposed going on in an ostensibly Protestant denomination without even a whimper of protest.

One just can’t help but think about the frog in the kettle complacently meditating as the water of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism slowly begins to boil. Is this really how conditioned to accept the Devil’s Ecumenical Church of Deceit the flocks of so many SBC pastors and ministers have become? The tragic result of years of indoctrination into this anti-Reformational garbage forced on them in seminary studies and crippling counseling courses until they simply can no longer discern Truth from error?

See also:

RICK WARREN AND SADDLEBACK CHURCH: PRAYER IS NOT FOR THE NOVICE

“BIBLE SCHOLAR” RICK WARREN REVERSING THE REFORMATION

WHO IS RICHARD FOSTER?

DELUSIONS OF DALLAS WILLARD

ROB BELL RESOURCES FROM APPRISING MINISTRIES

SPIRITUAL FORMATION: JUST SAY NO