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Contemplative
Prayer Practices Truth:
Can It Be Found Outside of Christianity? A perfect example of what Ray Yungen calls the "creeping" effect. Little by little, in subtle and not so subtle ways, we are being conditioned to believe that all paths lead to God. The origin of such heresy ... it began with Lucifer who said "I will be like the most High." |
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Youth Specialties President: "Christianity is an eastern religion."
On Yoga: On Eastern
Religion: On ContemplativePrayer: "On saying words over and over again: well that sure is taken out of context. It's not like we would suggest someone grab any word ('Tree!' 'Towel!' 'Beer!') and chant it over and over again-which is her implication. There is a wonderful spiritual practice, however, of repeating a phrase from the Bible and seeing what God reveals to you about it (or about Him, or about you). It's prayer: not a chant.—A response to the charge that YS is embracing eastern religion by Mark Oestreicher
Labyrinths, centering prayer, icons, stations of the cross, the sign of the cross,the Jesus Prayer  Youth
Specialties Recommends a book by Maggie & Duffy Robbins
.... Enjoy
the Silence. But did you know that Maggie was trained at
the pro-contemplative, pro Eastern mediation, Kairos
School of Spiritual Formation?
A
supplemental reading list for Kairos School includes the following
authors: David
Steindl-Rast, Thomas Keating and
Morton Kelsey, all of whom are interspiritual contemplatives.
Disciplines,
Mystics, and the Contemplative Life
by Mike Perschon An excerpt: "I built myself a prayer room—a tiny sanctuary in a basement closet filled with books on spiritual disciplines, contemplative prayer, and Christian mysticism. In that space I lit candles, burned incense, hung rosaries, and listened to tapes of Benedictine monks. I meditated for hours on words, images, and sounds. I reached the point of being able to achieve alpha brain patterns..."
Youth
Specialties magazine Youth Worker,
in this month's issue (November 2004)— Yes they are promoting mantra-style meditation. Youth Specialties is a growing leader in discipleship training for youth workers and youth pastors. YS also sponsors the well attended National Pastor's Convention. But did you know that Youth Specialties promotes and teaches contemplative prayer and the silence? In the May 2003 Youth Specialties Update, they suggest their readers go to this web site - ALTERNATIVE WORSHIP. See
What Is Being Promoted
Meditations, incantations, chants, guided fantasies, incense, holding stones* ANCIENT FUTURE YOUTH MINISTRY "It's
Sunday just after 5 P.M. in the youth room. Seven adults are
sitting around a 'Christ-candle' in the youth room. There
is no talking, no laughter. For 10 minutes, the only noise
is the sound of their breathing ... now it's 7 p.m. ... one
hour into the night's youth group gathering. There are 18
senior highers and five adults sitting in a candlelit sanctuary.
A gold cross stands on a table . They're chanting the 'Jesus
Prayer', an ancient meditative practice." (taken from the July/August 1999 issue of Group
Magazine - a leading resource magazine for Christian
youth leaders)
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