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Larry
Crabb and
the American Association of Christian Counselors |
Larry
Crabb interview:
I have a lot of appreciation for Richard Foster and for Dallas
Willard. I think it was a really personal thing that I just
wanted to do. I pretty much gave up on insight as producing the
transformation that I really longed for. I had a greater interest
in spiritual formation. It had to be union versus your insight....
the whole idea of purgation, illumination and union. I became
aware of a tremendous hunger for knowing the Lord after being
a Christian all my life. So that was a personal reason why I moved
away from counseling to spiritual direction. |
In
Their Own Words
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Why
psychologist Larry Crabb believes spiritual direction should replace therapy.
See article
Got
Your Spiritual Director Yet?
article in Christianity Today about Spiritual Directors and the
contemplatives who got this going.
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"...contemplative
prayer also stands on the threshold of exploding worldwide.
Dr. Larry Crabb, spiritual director for the 50,000 member American
Association of Christian Counselors, has written the foreword to
a recent book37 that expounds on the future of
spiritual direction in the evangelical church. The authors the book
promotes are ... Nouwen, Merton, Foster, Keating,
Pennington, etc. ...With that in mind, Dr. Crabb predicted: 'The
spiritual climate is ripe. Jesus seekers across the world are being
prepared to abandon the old way of the written code[does he mean
the Bible?] for the new way of the Spirit." from
A Time of Departing - page 137
37 -David
G. Benner, Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship
& Direction, Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, 2002,
p.9
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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom,"
"spiritual disciplines," and many others.
Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement. |
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