Over at Watcher’s Lamp my good friend Jim Luppachino and associates have been closely following, and attempted to dialogue with, the Virginia Baptist Mission Board (SBC) concerning their current dealings with “Progressive Evangelical” [read: postliberal] Tony Campolo.

In the Apprising Ministries piece Tony Campolo to Enlighten Southern Baptists in Virginia we pointed out that Emergent Evangelical Prophet Tony Campolo is going to be featured speaker at the upcoming Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) “185th Annual Meeting of the BGAV” on November 11-12. (Online source)

There Campolo will be bringing his brand of neo-Gnostic wisdom which he supposedly gleaned from his practice of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) along with the reimagined social gospel of the Emerging Church to enlighten Southern Baptists in Virginia.

But the problem with this spurious CSM being spread as a “Protestantized” version of so-called Spiritual Formation is that it originated in the antibiblical lifestyle of hermits and hermettes in the desert of Egypt (hello!) and then flowered in the monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism.

With this in mind Luppachino writes:

The Baptist General Association of Virginia’s (BGAV) Truthfully Speaking document addresses frequently asked questions about the BGAV and it’s affiliate agency, The Virginia Baptist Mission Board (VBMB). There are four questions within Truthfully Speaking that are of particular interest, given the hosting of Tony Campolo… (Online source)

Luppachino then thoroughly goes through each of these four key questions turning over the rocks under which their hypocrisy attempts to slither. You can read his article in its entirety here.

See also:

TONY CAMPOLO IS “PARTLY RIGHT”

TONY CAMPOLO: COUNTER-REFORMATION SAINTS LIKE IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA IMPORTANT SOURCES OF HELP 

TONY CAMPOLO WITH “MYSTICAL ENCOUNTERS FOR CHRISTIANS”

TONY CAMPOLO: “CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM” TRUMPS THE BIBLE

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION IS RECKLESS FAITH