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

Emergent Church Guru Brian Mclaren who is friends with Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster brings out an important fact in his earlier statement in Christianity Today 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 the new cult of liberalism.

However, at the same time in his modern Church Growth classic The Purpose Driven Church 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 Megapastor Rick Warren would end up holding open the door for the Southern Baptist Convention to get back on the road home to Rome. It would also usher in an open attack on the Reformation from new evangelicalism which was launched through the serpentine spirituality of men like LST Richard Foster. 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 contemplative mysticism 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?