Evangelicals Embrace Mystics with guest Pastor Ken Silva (Crosstalk America)

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Host:Ingrid Schlueter
Guest:Ken Silva

There is a growing fascination among evangelicals who are claiming to find truth by embracing elements of medieval mysticism as well as the modern, Eastern influenced mysticism.

To prove the point, Ingrid played a You Tube audio clip of Christian apologist Ravi Zacharius who, while discussing homosexuality, referenced Henri Nouwen as being a great saint of recent memory. Once a professor of psychology at Harvard University, Nouwen believed that it was his call to help every person claim his or her way to God. That's a message of universalism, not Christian theology.

As you listen to this program you'll learn about other personalities, past and present, that support a union of Christianity and mysticism. You'll also discover how this movement is actually leading people toward neo-pietism as it attempts to connect them into union with God.

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[islamsins]

2 Timothy 4:3 - For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

:-(

[daafith]

Designing another Jesus, another way. No thanks.

[aldotkd1]

I think "Christianity Today" is published by the Billy Graham assoc,.which promotes the Pope and the apostate doctrine of the Catholic Church.

[1alvar]

my father used to read the bible every day back when my mother was still alive,they did it for years on end,thanks to god my father,s still alive and close to 90,he is very catholic,it is a fact that when we pray we help ourselves to live better and die in peace,my father had a back cracking job but never said nothing about it,he accepted it as an honest way of making a living, he now understands that right here on earth we can make our own hell or paradise , he is right,make your own judgem,

[meggy8868]

Very thorough treatment of the desire to have union with God, to "hear from God," in Evangelical Churches where experience trumps Scripture.

[hellokitty35100]

@SailorReyes O just over it! there only one way JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[catholichotie]

@SailorReyes Hey How are you? Most of us Christians don"t act like that or follow a kind of imaginary God like that we love the Buddhist God is the Judge and his heart is mercy when these people judge they think they are God its very prideful to put yourself in his place these types of Christians even bash Christians like me and also those nice pastors they are bashing in the film clip

[ronatholl]

call off the search thats all

[SailorReyes]

you people actually believe all the buddhists in the history of the world deserve death and hell???? ANSWER ME NOW???

WHAT KIND OF LAW BREAKING MURDUROUS GOD DO YOU FOLLOW?????

[SailorReyes]

i bet people are just tired of feeling condemned and are open to seeking a God that saves all not murders all but few.

[SailorReyes]

YOU GUYS JUST EDUCATED ME about HENRI NOUWEN. now i can read his stuff and enjoy his beliefs!!!! what a smart compassionate man!!!!!!!

[butterflyring]

someone needs to talk about the huge influence of the New Age occult on the Christian 'business' world. All those business conferences that talk about INCREASE, INCREASE and talk little about the blood of Jesus Christ needs to be reckoned with and revealed.