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from www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com.

do you know the influences behind the sermons you hear? the books you read?
Did You Know?

The Shack author denies the biblical view of substitutionary atonement.
Lectio Divina is not just another way of reading the Bible

The Purpose Driven Paradigm is promoting and helping to bring forth a dangerous unbiblical spirituality.

Brian McLaren's Hope is for the minds of your grandchildren

Youth Specialties and Zondervan Publishing have
partnered together to promote the emerging church and contemplative
Celebration of Discipline has influenced Christians for over 30 years—towards contemplative and Ancient Wisdom teachings.

Leonard Sweet
—endorsed by top Christian leaders yet teaching and promoting a spirituality that negates the Cross.

Check out the "inside language" of the the contemplative prayer movement - Recognize these terms?
The ways of the Desert Fathers influence Christian monasticism to this day.
Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom, "
"spiritual disciplines, " and many others.
Spiritual Formation:
A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which
contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation
being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative
spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of
the spiritual formation movement.