which is part of the whole Emergent Church problem, but is a persistent and very bad movement of it's own. Contemplative Prayer is one of the facets of that problematic teaching.
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I was listening to it last night and REALLY appreciated it. I bumped into that problem in the Baptist church I attended for over a decade after we moved here. It gradually went off into Purpose Driven Seeker Sensitive stuff and I left when it decided that Noah's Ark was Hebrew poetry and the Flood wasn't really world wide.
The Youth Pastor had just discovered Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline which is one of the ways it was entering evangelical circles at the time (late 1999 early 2000) but was written in the late 70s. Richard was part of the neo Quakers that were quite popular then, and his work crossed over into evangelical circles at the turn of the millennium and became one aspect of Emergent church stuff.
Long story short, Barry is warning against this- I guess it must be having a resurgence of popularity. When I went to check when R. Foster wrote his book the blurb under one of the book sites raved about it as a modern church classic.
I suppose it is- if you are interested in heretical doctrines coming out of the Jesuits and Catholic mystics.
Meanwhile I highly encourage listening to Barry Stagner explain it all much better than I can. Just in case it's coming to a church near you!
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I was listening to it last night and REALLY appreciated it. I bumped into that problem in the Baptist church I attended for over a decade after we moved here. It gradually went off into Purpose Driven Seeker Sensitive stuff and I left when it decided that Noah's Ark was Hebrew poetry and the Flood wasn't really world wide.
The Youth Pastor had just discovered Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline which is one of the ways it was entering evangelical circles at the time (late 1999 early 2000) but was written in the late 70s. Richard was part of the neo Quakers that were quite popular then, and his work crossed over into evangelical circles at the turn of the millennium and became one aspect of Emergent church stuff.
Long story short, Barry is warning against this- I guess it must be having a resurgence of popularity. When I went to check when R. Foster wrote his book the blurb under one of the book sites raved about it as a modern church classic.
I suppose it is- if you are interested in heretical doctrines coming out of the Jesuits and Catholic mystics.
Meanwhile I highly encourage listening to Barry Stagner explain it all much better than I can. Just in case it's coming to a church near you!
