More "Christian" Mysticism

From Apprising Ministries:

In Christianity Today Promoting The Cult of Richard Foster you will see Apprising Ministries point out that the current September 2008 issue of CT features an interview embracing Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster as a teacher of proper Christian spirituality.

However, as you’ll see in Spiritual Formation: Just Say No, with an able assist from Foster’s spiritual twin Dallas Willard, under that guise neopagan so-called “spiritual disciplines” have now slithered into the heart of evangelicalism.

But the the truth is that the core practice of this Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is Contemplative/Centering Prayer is actually a type of meditation that’s virtually identical to that practiced in Eastern religions such as Zen Buddhism and the transcendental meditation of Hinduism.

And this kind of spurious spiritual formation, so-called “Christian” mysticism, which really developed in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism is now showing up in more and more evangelical youth groups. Ingrid Schuleter begins this Crosstalk program discussing this fascination that some young evangelical Christians have with Roman Catholic mysticism. AM gives you the link to this program here.

Listen to Pastor Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries in this related video Iron Sharpens Iron with Ken Silva on Mysticism .