DISCIPLINES TO DECEPTION IN SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

Looks like the Virginia Baptists aren't the only ones dabbling in mysticism...

From Apprising Ministries:

Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster in SDPCM.

You can find SDPCM e.g. under Discipleship Resources of the State Board of Missions of the Alabama Baptist Convention (SBC) right here and it opens with a quote from Foster’s magnum opus of spurious spirituality, which Dr. Gary Gilley correctly called a virtual encyclopedia of theological error:

Thirty years ago, Richard Foster, in the beginning of his book, Celebration of
Discipline wrote these words: “Superficiality is the curse of our age. The
doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate
need is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but
for deep people. The classical Disciplines of the spiritual life call us to move
beyond surface living into the depths.” (Online source)

This begs the question: What “classical Disciplines of the spiritual life,” which apparently escaped the attention of God’s Church Reformers, are we talking about? Pastor Bob DeWaay has done a scholarly expose The Dangers of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines: A Critique of Dallas Willard and The Spirit of the Disciplines; for those who don’t know ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard is Foster’s twin spiritually, who was once Willard’s pastor.