ARCHIVE OF MENNONITE BRETHREN CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

This blog is a simple archive of the involvement the Mennonite Brethren have in the Contemplative Spirituality movement. It is here for those who are looking for a record of evidence that this has been happening so that they may point out the error of this movement within the MB's and warn of its dangers. It does not endorse or condone contemplative spirituality in any way shape or form. I consider its infiltration into the church to be an attack upon the body of Christ by Satan himself.

Friday, December 11, 2009

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY AT MBBS IN THEIR "MINISTRY QUEST" PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH

One of Ministry Quest's recommended study books:

Learn to Dance the Soul Salsa by Leonard Sweet

For an expose on Leonard Sweet (new age sympathizer) please read:
Leonard Sweet: Quantum Spirituality and a Christ Consciousness

Ministry Quest's recommended reading list:

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald S. Whitney

The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas

In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen

Guided Ignatian Reflection

Practicing Ignatian Examin

Lectio Divinia
(These last three "resources" are all Roman Catholic practices. Ingnatius of Loyola was a Jesuit priest)

For further reading about the mystical, contemplative spirituality practices:
The Issue of Other Religious Practices as Worship in the Church by Let Us Reason Ministries
Evangelicals Turning to Catholic "Spirituality" by David Cloud
Please Contemplate This by T.A. McMahon
Mysticism - Part 2 by Gary Gilley describes modern mysticism, its roots, its main players and how it came to enter the Christian church today

WARNING:
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. DUE TO THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL NATURE OF THIS BLOG YOU WILL PROBABLY BE OFFENDED BY WHAT IS IMPLIED HERE IF YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THE EMERGENT/CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY MOVEMENT. BUT IF YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU SENSE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE MB CONFERENCE THAT JUST DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT TO YOU, IT MAY HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OR TERMINOLOGY OF CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO STUDY THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BELOW ON THIS SIDEBAR.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE:
I BECAME PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN THE CONTEMPLATIVE MOVEMENT AFTER TAKING A COURSE IN SPIRITUAL FORMATION AT BRIERCREST SEMINARY IN 2006. I HAVE SINCE BECOME AWARE OF THE SPIRITUAL DANGERS INHERENT WITHIN THE MOVEMENT, RENOUNCED MY INVOLVEMENT WITH IT AND REPENTED. (YOU CAN READ MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY BELOW). I AM COMMITTED TO INFORMING AND WARNING OTHERS ABOUT IT, SO THAT THEY WILL NOT BE DECEIVED INTO BELIEVING IT IS A BIBLICAL PRACTICE, WHEN IT IS ESSENTIALLY PAGAN AND CANNOT BE MODIFIED TO FIT WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CONTEXT. IT IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THEOSOPHICAL MYSTICISM AND IN ITS CONCLUSION LEADS TO INTERSPIRITUALITY.

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ

Jude 1:2-4