Dear Lighthouse Trails:
I thought you might want to know that Ravi Zacharias is speaking at the 2016 “SYNERGIZE” Conference in Orlando, FL, sharing the platform with New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet.
Ravi Zacharias’ scheduled appearance at this January 2016 conference is reminiscent of your posting in Jan.2008 expressing great concern over Ravi Zacharias’ anticipated participation in Robert Schuller’s “Rethink 2009 Conference” at Crystal Cathedral: See link: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=1440.
Now, in 2015, why is Ravi Zacharias speaking alongside Leonard Sweet?
Ravi Zacharias was general editor of Walter Martin’s 2003 revised,updated, and expanded edition of Martin’s classic reference book originally published in 1965: “The Kingdom of the Cults.” In the “General Editor’s Introduction” of that 2003 edition, Ravi Zacharias credits Martin as contributing to his own thinking on the task of apologetics and says he considers it a “distinct honor” to have been asked by Walter Martin’s family to become general editor of the updated edition of Martin’s classic reference book. Ravi Zacharias also says in that General Editor’s Preface (2003): “Of one thing we can be sure: Where we find truth, often in close proximity we also find a way that distorts and faults . . . the power to deceive is enormous.”
How can Ravi Zacharias have written that in 2003 and be willing to speak at a conference with Leonard Sweet?
Over the years, I am so glad Lighthouse Trails has posted many articles alerting readers of Leonard Sweet’s New Age sympathies and propagation of contemplative/mystical and panentheistic heresies. See Lighthouse link:
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?s=leonard+sweet&search=Search.
See also this link to a 2010 article by Ingrid Schlueter (former CrossTalk Radio host): http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=4948.
Is Ravi Zacharias aware that Leonard Sweet thanks occultist David Spangler for his spiritual influence and considers Pierre Teilhard De Chardin one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century? Warren B. Smith documents Sweet’s “New Light” heroes in Chapter 10 of his book: A “Wonderful” Deception.
Has Ravi Zacharias read Leonard Sweet’s book Quantum Spirituality in which he says on p.125: “Quantum spirituality bonds us to all creation as well as to other members of the human family. . . . This entails a radical doctrine of embodiment of God in the very substance of creation [panentheism]”?
In Christ,
CONCERNED IN CALIFORNIA
Related Information:
Alistair Begg Withdraws from Reimagine Conference with Leonard Sweet
Rick Warren and Leonard Sweet Riding the “Tides of Change” on the Heels of Mysticism
