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Philip
Yancey
"I
myself have been surprised at what I can get away with.
Ruth
Haley Barton
"Ask
for a simple prayer to express your willingness to meet God
in the silence ... a simple statement ... such as "Here
I am." ... Help yourself return to your original intent
by repeating the prayer that you have chosen."
Dan
Kimball
"The
labyrinth is a maze-like path similar to those designed into
the floors of European cathedrals during the Middle Ages. Christians
of that time would walk the labyrinth to aid their contemplative
prayer and reflection. The labyrinths fell into disuse, and
most were eventually forgotten or destroyed. At the National
Pastors Conference in San Diego, however, we found the labyrinth
was back and given an update."
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2008 National Pastor's Convention: 2008 National Pastors Convention Could Send Many Pastors in Mystical Direction
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2007
National Pastors Convention
The 2007
National Pastors Convention (presented by Zondervan publishers)
carries a heavy-weight line up of speakers. From Ruth
Haley Barton to Brian
McLaren next year's convention will not be lacking in New
Age sympathizing, meditation promoting speakers. John Burke, president
of Emerging Leadership
Initiative, was recently a speaker at the Ancient Wisdom conference,
and says this of the church of the future:
What
do a Buddhist, a biker couple, a gay-rights activist, a transient,
a high-tech engineer, a Muslim, a twenty-something single mom,
a Jew, a couple living together, and an atheist all have in common?
They are the future church in America! Most of them are in their
twenties or thirties and became followers of Christ in the past
five years. Many are now leading others in our church.
Emergent
leaders Dan Kimball, Mark Driscoll, and Doug Paggit are on the speakers
list as are other emerging/contemplative promoting authors such
as Robert Webber (Ancient-Future Worship), Lauren Winner (Girl
Meets God), and Gary Thomas (Sacred Pathways). Of Eugene
Peterson, Stuart Briscoe and Phyllis Tickle, Zondervan says:
Meet
this year's sages! These wise, experienced ministry leaders will
be onsite and readily available to meet with you and your team
by appointment. They're coming to answer your hard questions regarding
real-life ministry issues and in turn give insight into what has
helped them run the race well for so many years.
Unfortunately,
the answers that this long line of speakers at the 2007 convention
will be offering, will point participants to a spirituality that
shuffles off the gospel message of Jesus Christ and introduces a
sensual, demonic belief system that will bring much harm and damage.
We hope you will be able to convince your pastor and other church
leaders that this is not an event they should attend. For more
information: Our
research on the National Pastors Convention
Mystical
Encounters for Christians at the NPC
National
Pastors Convention 2006
Labyrinths, spiritual directors,
contemplative prayer
CONVENTION
2005
This
year's contemplative speakers include:
Read
The Book
That Exposes The Contemplative Prayer Movement For What It Really
Is ... A Movement That Negates the Cross and Promotes
the Belief That
"All Paths Lead to God."
A
Time of Departing
by Ray Yungen
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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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