This following subjective spiritual babble from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster is not evangelical Christianity but yet this is the man your pastors turn to for their “Protestant” Spiritual Formation. Better wake up soon…

“The Immanuel Principle is ultimately cosmic,” according to Foster. “We are to reign with God and be with God forever and forever. In the past God worked first directly, then indirectly with his people. Since Jesus’ birth, life, death and resurrection, God works both directly and indirectly. Quakers in the gathered silence experience God both directly and indirectly.”

I noticed that the focus on the with-God life circumnavigates inconsistencies found in Scripture and differing opinions about theology. By looking at how God revealed himself to people throughout Biblical history negates all those arguments. “You bypass it all,” stated Foster. “You put your focus on how God has been with a person and what does that say to me, now? What are their strengths and weaknesses and how does that apply to me? It’s all about developing charact — character that goes on into the future where we will reign with God and be with God eternally. (Online source, emphasis mine)

Huh?! According to Guru Foster the infallible and inerrant Bible has “inconsistencies”? Where exactly is that in Sola Scriptura? Does the Swami think somehow think that God stammers; stutters, can’t speak clearly?

See also:

THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF “SPIRITUAL FORMATION”

RICHARD FOSTER AND QUAKER BELIEFS

“CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE” BY RICHARD FOSTER AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEOLOGICAL ERROR

SO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE CHRIST… DITCH THE DISCIPLINES OF DALLAS WILLARD

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