My research on a pastor who insists that our God and Allah are one and the same, made me curious as to what other errant teachings might also abound in the Evangelical churches. Suddenly, I realized that I was seeing only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

“Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” Acts 20:30 (KJV)

It seems that the Emergent Church which teaches Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) has slithered its way into our Evangelical churches. The proper spirituality of the Christian, being sola Scriptura, is being replaced by Spiritual Mysticism, which can be traced back to the Roman Catholic church.

When preachers lose sight of their need to depend on and teach from the Word of God alone, their lofty and contrived ideas land them on a slippery slope which eventually leads to total apostasy.

What is Contemplative Spirituality?

From gotquestions.org

Answer: Contemplative spirituality is an extremely dangerous practice for any person who desires to live a biblical, God-centered life. It is most commonly associated with the emerging church movement, which is riddled with false teachings. It is also used by many different groups that have little, if any, connection with Christianity.

In practice, contemplative spirituality is primarily centered on meditation, although not meditation with a biblical perspective. Passages such as Joshua 1:8 actually exhort us to meditate: “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” Notice what the focus of meditation should be—the Word of God. Contemplative spirituality-driven meditation focuses on nothing, literally. A practitioner is exhorted to completely empty his/her mind, to just “be.” Supposedly, this helps one to open up to a greater spiritual experience. However, we are exhorted in Scripture to transform our minds to that of Christ’s, to have His mind. Emptying our minds is contrary to such active, conscious transformation.

Contemplative spirituality also encourages the pursuit of a mystical experience with God. Mysticism is the belief that knowledge of God, spiritual truth, and ultimate reality can be gained through subjective experience. This emphasis on experiential knowledge erodes the authority of Scripture. We know God according to His Word. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). God’s Word is complete. There is no reason to believe that God adds additional teachings or truths to His Word through mystical experiences. Instead, our faith and what we know about God is based on fact. – source

The Common thread in in Mystical (Emergent) churches

If you happen to attend one of these apostate churches, I am certain that you are aware of the gravitational pull back to Catholicism, which many of these preachers consider the “Mother Church.”

What happened to the Great Reformation?  Did Luther’s posting of his 95 theses on the door of the Catholic church which resulted in the Protestant movement mean nothing?   When Luther exposed the works based doctrine of the Catholic church, compared to Scripture which teaches that we are saved by Grace through faith  – was this all for naught?

Satan is causing the Confusion because he is a liar

Is Satan not called the father of lies in the Word of God?

Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees when He said:

The Mystic “Saints” of the Catholic Church   <click here to read about this

The Catholic Church is a CULT!  Strong language you say?  Well, what do you call an institution which preaches a different gospel than the one taught by Jesus Christ Himself?   A CULT.

Why in the World would we desire to return to Rome?

Rick Warren said this:

The pope is CERTAINLY  not my pope and hopefully you do not consider him to be your pope!

How have so many Evangelicals been duped in believing heresy?

Again, I go back to the “slippery slope” and when the leadership of churches no longer view the Word of God as our foundation and the only real TRUTH, and men choose “New ways to teach about God”  they find themselves on the slippery slope which invariably lands them into apostasy – heretical teachings.

It will only get worse 

The Great Falling Away has been happening for years. It seems that in the last 10 years it has become epidemic and this is the reason that the mainline churches are in decline.

The true remnant of the church grows smaller and smaller.

Brethren – make sure that you are in the faith.  Make sure that you are not blown about by every wind of doctrine which comes along.  The ONLY way to keep yourselves safe is to cling to the Bible and pray to Jesus for discernment. I’ve said is so many times, but we MUST be like the Bereans:

“These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so”  (Acts 17:11).

These were brethren with much discernment.  Imagine who was preaching to them!  And they received the teachings “with all readiness” but yet they immediately searched the Scriptures to make sure that what was told to them was Truth!

We must do the same

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!