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May 04, 2008
SOMETHING DEFINITELY NOT RIGHT WITH NEW ORLEANS SEMINARY
Apprising Ministries is doing all that can be done to try and alert the Body of Christ to growing apostasy within the Southern Baptist Convention. Unfortunately it’s also the nature of the “game” that most will not listen, and especially not the postliberal leadership and the vipers in the Emerging Church who have been busy slithering back in after their divisive predecessors in the original Cult of Liberal Theology were once moved out years ago.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 08:47 PM | Permalink
May 02, 2008
SOMETHING NOT RIGHT WITH SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CROSSOVER ’08 (PART TWO)
Following the Lord’s command that “every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (see also—Matthew 18:16) in the first part of Something Not Right with Southern Baptist Convention Crossover ’08 I gave you a few solid examples as witnesses for my sincere concern that Gnostic neo-pagan Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) has slithered deep from its den in Hell on into the SBC. And if one makes the time to check my archive Southern Baptist Convention they will see this has been an issue Apprising Ministries has covered for some time now.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 04:40 PM | Permalink
April 20, 2008
INTERSPIRITUAL WORSHIP OF THE EMERGING CHURCH AND POSTEVANGELICALISM
For those who have eyes that see it will become clear that a major error of contemporary postevangelicalism’s Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD), corrupted as it is by the emerging neo-Gnostic mysticism of the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster, is an over-emphasis on the New Testament revelation of God.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 04:34 PM | Permalink
April 12, 2008
JAMES EMERY WHITE PROMOTES CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM
Concerning the 19th Annual National Conference on Preaching (NCP) Jim Luppachino of Watcher’s Lamp has written a timely piece called James Emery White’s Purpose Driven Mysticism. Now in this article Apprising Ministries examines the issue further and shows you beyond the shadow of a doubt that White is indeed promoting Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 12:58 PM | Permalink
April 04, 2008
DOUG PAGITT, ROB BELL, DALAI LAMA AND THE INTERSPIRITUAL SEEDS OF COMPASSION EVENT
In the Apprising Ministries article Seeds of Compassion Event: Rob Bell, Doug Pagitt with Dalai Lama I began to take a look at this event in Seattle, which runs from April 11-15, where Emergent Church pastors Doug Pagitt and his “friend” Rob Bell are joining themselves publicly with the Buddhist icon Dalai Lama (essentially means “teacher with an ocean of wisdom”)—as well as with a host of secular humanists advocating the human potential, and with New Agers, Muslims and Buddhists—in an interspiritual gathering.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 10:55 AM | Permalink
April 02, 2008
UNDERSTANDING THE NEW SPIRITUALITY: GOD INDWELLS MANKIND
The idea here at Apprising Ministries is to begin helping you understand this New Spirituality as well as giving you a proper Christian perspective of it. Firmly rooted as it is in pagan Eastern religions which lurk beneath the New Age movement, this so-called “Christian” mysticism is right now slithering deep into the evangelical camp under the guise of Contemplative Spirituality.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 04:22 PM | Permalink
March 21, 2008
THE POWER OF THE CROSS
Mankind has an innate self-centered penchant for finding ways to make himself comfortable in his sin, and for excusing his many faults. The enemy of men’s souls, Satan, has been exploiting this for centuries, and most recently through his ministering minions in the semi-pelagian and man-centered Ecumenical Church of Deceit. However, as you will see from this piece here at Apprising Ministries the truth is that God has already dealt with this evil on a bloody Roman cross some two thousand years ago.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 06:40 PM | Permalink
March 20, 2008
CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER AS “CHRISTIAN” MEDITATION
At Apprising Ministries you will likely hear me talking more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into postevangelicalism from its den in the emerging church. The fact is this neopagan Gnostic spirituality is most pointedly on display in the misguided mysticism of the Emergent Church with its reimagined post-liberal theology. Consider this dubious choice by a couple of notables practitioners well within Emergent Seeds of Compassion Event: Rob Bell, Doug Pagitt with Dalai Lama.
And yes, I am fully aware that people involved in this highly schismatic movement prefer to be known as the Emerging Church, but no longer emerging, this cultic group has now fully emerged from the shadows on the outskirts of the American Christian Church right into the heart of the rapidly apostatizing evangelical camp itself.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 12:06 PM | Permalink
March 16, 2008
COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM NOW
The times we are living in are quite dangerous for the genuine members of the Body of Christ as we enter what may be the end of this age of God's grace. Before us is the shiny lure of false unity in postevangelicalism, which is the logical outgrowth of the seeker sensitive Church Growth Movement with the Purpose Driven Church; the misplaced mysticism of the Emergent Church and then, there’s the Word Faith Church of greed all now converging upon the broad ecumenical road that leads right back to religious bondage rooted in apostate Roman Catholicism. The discerning Christian had best get back to a prayerful study of God's infallible and inerrant Word in the Bible, for the time has arrived when we must heed the warning of the Spirit to Come Out From Among Them Now.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 08:25 PM | Permalink
March 03, 2008
ROB BELL AND NEW AGE GURU MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Below here at Apprising Ministries you will see beyond a shadow of a doubt that emerging church pastor Rob Bell agrees with New Age priestess Marianne Williamson concerning the nature of man. The question that needs to be asked is: What kind of a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ could agree with the lie from the pit of Hell you'll see within? But it is this kind of lunacy in the Lord that we are getting leaders in the Emergent Church like the Elvis of Emergent Rob Bell.
Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at 11:23 AM | Permalink
