{"id":22084,"date":"2017-01-26T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T12:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:38:37","slug":"chuck-swindolls-ministry-says-stop-sending-lighthouse-trails-booklets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/chuck-swindolls-ministry-says-stop-sending-lighthouse-trails-booklets\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Swindoll’s Ministry Says Stop Sending Lighthouse Trails Booklets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since early 2016, Lighthouse Trails has been sending out short letters and topical booklets that we publish to dozens of Christian leaders in America. Thus far, we have received a few responses, usually short notes from the ministry office thanking us for sending the materials. This week, we received an e-mail from Chuck Swindoll’s ministry telling us to remove him from our list and to no longer send him materials.\u00a0 The e-mail stated:<\/p>\n

Please remove Chuck Swindoll and Insight for Living Ministries at PO Box 5000, Frisco, Texas 75034, from Lighthouse Trails Publishing\u2019s mailing list.<\/p>\n

As a not-for-profit ministry, we strive to use every penny wisely and imagine that you do too.\u00a0 Because of the time and effort required to process the huge amount of correspondence we receive, we respectfully request that you remove our organization from your mailing list.\u00a0 This may also help you save some printing and postage costs.\u00a0 Thank you for taking the time to update your records.\u00a0 We sincerely appreciate your prompt assistance with this matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While we do not want to be presumptuous in thinking that busy successful Christian leaders would even want to give Lighthouse Trails a moment of their time, we do find it disconcerting (though not really surprising) that Chuck Swindoll has refused our booklets. Swindoll is discussed in Lighthouse Trails articles partly because of a book he wrote titled So You Want to Be Like Christ: Eight Essential Disciplines to Get You There<\/em> (see Ray Yungen’s article below).\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a sad state of affairs when leaders have the time to read Henri Nouwen, Mother Teresa, Richard Foster, and Dallas Willard, and other contemplative authors but not enough time to read\u00a0 material that questions the contemplative prayer movement.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, at their request, we will remove Chuck Swindoll’s name from our leader’s list. But this does not remove him or other Christian leaders from being responsible for what they are doing and teaching or from having to answer one day to the one Who judges all things.<\/p>\n

We told Chuck Swindoll’s office that we would let our readers know of its request.<\/p>\n

\n

So You Want to Be Like Christ<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Ray Yungen<\/p>\n

Charles (Chuck) Swindoll has a popular radio program called Insight for Living. In a September 2005 radio broadcast, Swindoll favorably quoted Henri Nouwen and Richard Foster. But it wasn\u2019t until I saw Swindoll\u2019s 2005 book So You Want To Be Like Christ: Eight Essentials to Get You There<\/em> that I realized Swindoll had been influenced by contemplative authors. In the book, Swindoll quotes Richard Foster and Henri Nouwen, as well as Eugene Peterson and Dallas Willard. He states that he \u201csensed a genuine need \u2026 for the cultivation of intimacy with the Almighty.\u201d1 He says, \u201cThere is a deep longing among Christians and non-Christians\u201d2 for intimacy with God and that intimacy with God should be our goal, and \u201cdiscipline is the means to that end.\u201d3 Chapter three of Swindoll\u2019s book is called \u201cSilence and Solitude.\u201d In it, he tells readers there are \u201csecrets \u2026 that will deepen our intimacy with God,\u201d4 so we can see \u201cwhat others miss.\u201d5 As he attempts to explain what these secrets are, he refers to the Scripture so often quoted by contemplatives, Psalm 46:10, \u201cBe still, and know that I am God.\u201d He goes on to say:<\/p>\n

As we continue our journey toward intimacy with the Almighty, Psalm 46:10 calls us to the discipline of silence\u2026. What happens when you and I commit ourselves to periods of absolute, uninterrupted silence?6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Swindoll refers to an interview between Mother Teresa (a contemplative and interspiritualist) and former anchorman Dan Rather where she explains to Rather the concept of the silence. Swindoll then exhorts his readers to \u201cdiscover its secrets for yourself.\u201d7 Yet he avoids describing the actual method of contemplative prayer, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re on your own with this one,\u201d referring to it as \u201cthe mystery of godliness\u201d8 (which actually is a reference in the Bible to the deity of Jesus Christ, not the silence, I Timothy 3:16). He brings the proverbial horse right to the water by favorably quoting [Richard] Foster, Nouwen, and [Dallas] Willard throughout the book.<\/p>\n

Swindoll goes so far as to imply that without the silence we cannot really know God, [stating]:<\/p>\n

Sustained periods of quietness are essential in order for that [becoming like Christ] to happen \u2026 I encourage you to experience this for yourself.9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He finally quotes from Henri Nouwen\u2019s, The Way of the Heart <\/em>and then reflects, \u201cI do not believe anyone can ever become a deep person [intimate with God] without stillness and silence.\u201d10<\/p>\n

This is really quite a misleading statement. It is not the silence that draws us closer to God and allows us to become a \u201cdeep person\u201d as Swindoll and the contemplatives insist. Scripture clearly teaches that it is only through the blood atonement of Jesus Christ that we can gain access to Him. We cannot add or take away from that. When we are born again, we are as united to Him as we will ever be. Atonement by the blood is the only direct and truly genuine means of meeting with God. The Old Testament speaks of the \u201cmercy seat\u201d wherein the Lord says \u201cthere I will meet with you\u201d (Exodus 25:22). How awesome! A Holy God meets with man, but only when there is blood to atone for man. Hebrews 10:19-22, a clear reference to the Old Testament passage says that Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb, is the fulfillment. When Jesus died, the curtain was torn apart, signifying that now in Christ (the new covenant), the Holy Place, God\u2019s presence is open to ALL who believe. We do not need to go into a meditative, self-induced state [as Nouwen suggests in his writings] to be in God\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n

Some may say that Swindoll is only referring to a quiet time away from the hustle and bustle of life when he speaks of silence. If that were the case, then why does he differentiate between silence and solitude? He refers to solitude as getting away from it all, an external quietness, and makes it clear that silence is an internal stillness like Henri Nouwen described in The Way of the Heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While at this point, Swindoll does not actually teach mantras or altered states, his promotion and extensive quoting of contemplatives gives every indication that he is moving toward the contemplative camp. Typically, those who begin following the teachings of the authors I have warned about, and begin promoting the silence, continue steadily on a downward spiral into outright mysticism and deception. It is vital to understand that Nouwen\u2019s book The Way of the Heart<\/em> is a virtual primer on the practice of contemplative prayer. For instance, in the 2005 radio broadcast, Swindoll read a portion of The Way of the Heart<\/em> where Nouwen makes reference to the silence of the mind contrasting it with regular silence as in not speaking. (This has been an excerpt from A Time of Departing<\/em>, 2nd ed., pp. 190-192)<\/p>\n

QUOTES FROM SWINDOLL\u2019S BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSo you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won\u2019t just happen \u2026 Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled.\u201d Introduction<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s commit ourselves to these eight spiritual disciplines.\u201d Introduction<\/p>\n

\u201cHenri Nouwen \u2026 longed to get away from all those words \u2026 So how do we pull it off? How, in a world bent on distracting us from growing deeper? \u2026 How do you and I become more godly? \u2026 The word is discipline. The secret lies in our returning to the spiritual disciplines.\u201d p. 9, 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have sensed a genuine need\u2013in my own life\u2013for the cultivation of intimacy with the Almighty\u2026. God requires spiritual disciplines \u2026 essential in our pursuit of godliness. \u2026 I came across Dallas Willard\u2019s<\/span><\/strong><\/a> excellent work The Spirit of the Disciplines<\/em>.\u201d p. 12<\/p>\n

\u201cRichard Foster\u2019s meaningful work Celebration of Discipline <\/em>\u2026\u201d p. 15<\/p>\n

\u201cDiscipline. This is the means for having intimacy with God. \u2026 Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order. So how are intimacy and discipline connected? \u2026 Discipline is the means to that end.\u201d p. 21<\/p>\n

In September 2005, Lighthouse Trails was informed that Chuck Swindoll was favorably quoting Henri Nouwen and Richard Foster on his Insight For Living program. We contacted Insight for Living and spoke with Pastor Graham Lyons. We shared our concerns, then later sent A Time of Departing<\/em> to him and also a copy to Chuck Swindoll.<\/p>\n

In a letter dated 10\/3\/05 from Pastor Lyons, we were told, \u201cWith his schedule I doubt he will read it.\u201d We are sorry that Chuck Swindoll has time to read Henri Nouwen and Richard Foster but no time to read A Time of Departing<\/em>, especially in light of the fact that thousands of people will read Chuck Swindoll\u2019s book, listen to his broadcasts, and now believe that the contemplative authors are acceptable and good.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/strong>
\n1.Charles Swindoll, So You Want To Be Like Christ? <\/em>(Nashville, TN: W Publishing Group, a div. of Thomas Nelson, 2005), p. 12.
\n2. Ibid., p. 14.
\n3. Ibid., p. 21.
\n4. Ibid., p. 55.
\n5. Ibid.
\n6. Ibid., p. 61.
\n7. Ibid., p. 62.
\n8. Ibid.
\n9. Ibid., p. 63.
\n10. Ibid., p. 65.<\/p>\n

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