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The
Serious Problems with
Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Movement |
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WHAT THE CHRISTIAN MEDIA DOESN'T TELL YOU ...
A "WONDERFUL" DECEPTION
By Warren Smith
(author of Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church)
The Spiritual Direction of Rick Warren |
As Rick Warren moves ahead toward his global peace agenda, working with virtually anyone or any group who rallies behind him, he has moved to the forefront of evangelical leaders who are propagating the contemplative prayer movement (i.e., spiritual formation). In essence, he has become an evangelist for contemplative spirituality. For those who realize that contemplative (that is mystical meditation) is the driving force behind the kingdom-now, heaven-on-earth emerging church movement, this is an alarming deduction. - Rick Warren Plays "Catch Me if You Can" While Promoting Mysticism
On The Emerging Church:
New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet, who will be training church leaders and pastors at the 2008 Saddleback Small Groups Conference in April, is accepted by Rick Warren as a trustworthy source of Christian leadership. However, Sweet's view of the value of small groups lines up more with the New Age and Alice Bailey than it does with biblical Christianity. In his book, Quantum Spirituality, Sweet states:
The power of small groups is in their ability to develop the discipline to get people "in-phase" with the Christ consciousness and connected with one another. Read more.
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"Rick
Warren and others say we need to pay attention to the emerging
church. Things are changing, they say and the "emerging
church" has the answers for our generation. But what
will the emerging church emerge into? Could it be a form
of Christianity that embraces experience rather than God's
Word?"—Roger Oakland, Understand the Times. Read Entire Article
On Poor Bible Translations:
Rick
Warren's use of the paraphrase,
The Message, for much of his writings.
We bring this to your attention because we believe
too many people are using The Message as a literal
translation, which it is not.
On Theology:
"Warren
teaches that God 'created the church to meet your five
deepest needs' just as the Roman Catholic Church says,
'The Church is the mother of all believers.' Warren, like
Rome, has switched from obedience to the Word and Person
of the Living God to submission to a church to
achieve one's needs. It is the oldest and cleverest temptation
known to man."—Richard Bennett, The
Adulation of Man in the Purpose-Driven Life
"The
Purpose Driven Life maintains
and promotes a poor theology stemming from an inadequate bibliology. Verses are used out of context ..." Read
more — Tim Todd
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"The
video on exponential growth, presented by Warren, is one
of the most shocking teachings I have ever seen emerge" ...Read on
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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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