Dwayna,
...The details of Lectio divina is given also separately on the prayer resources of Redeemer church. It is given in detail.
http://www.redeemer.com/connect/prayer/lectio_divina.html
I just looked at the Redeemer church web page again after looking up One Truth ministries and reading Brian Flynn's warning about it.
http://onetruthministries.com/LectioDivina.htm
I saw that the format for Lectio Divina (on Redeemer Church web site) is given from a book listed on the bottom of the page:
Sacred Companions by David Benner, 2002. I looked up the book:
http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3270
You can see the contents and read the first chapter on line. I just read a few pages of chapter 1, and it is about having an enlightened sense of God, etc. The author writes that it is for a deeper, more meaningful relationship. He then talks about the Catholic and orthodox churches and that they knew of how to have that experience. He mentions several mystics including, Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton and the 14th century mystic, Meister Eckhart.
...The details of Lectio divina is given also separately on the prayer resources of Redeemer church. It is given in detail.
http://www.redeemer.com/connect/prayer/lectio_divina.html
I just looked at the Redeemer church web page again after looking up One Truth ministries and reading Brian Flynn's warning about it.
http://onetruthministries.com/LectioDivina.htm
I saw that the format for Lectio Divina (on Redeemer Church web site) is given from a book listed on the bottom of the page:
Sacred Companions by David Benner, 2002. I looked up the book:
http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3270
You can see the contents and read the first chapter on line. I just read a few pages of chapter 1, and it is about having an enlightened sense of God, etc. The author writes that it is for a deeper, more meaningful relationship. He then talks about the Catholic and orthodox churches and that they knew of how to have that experience. He mentions several mystics including, Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton and the 14th century mystic, Meister Eckhart.
Dwayna, you really need to read this chapter on line and see that people who are attending Redeemer church and others who have trusted Tim Keller would be buying this book and be presented with even more contemplative teachings. They also would be taught pro Catholic teachings since the Catholic church is portrayed as favorable. Evidently, other books are given in this book for the readers to use. It is incredible how the pathway for such false ways is being formed within the church! I think of that verse that God sends a delusion for the people to believe a lie because they have no love for the Truth. Jesus Christ is the living Truth, and His Word is the written Truth. People who do not love God's Word and want more than that are craving a personal encounter with God to experience a form of mystical union.
This is a quote from the preface of the book Sacred Companions:
When I am still I can sometimes feel a gentle breeze blowing into my soul. Others are reporting the same experience.
This is a quote from the preface of the book Sacred Companions:
When I am still I can sometimes feel a gentle breeze blowing into my soul. Others are reporting the same experience.
I am excited. For this stubborn melancholic to sense excitement stirring, something supernatural must be going on. I believe it is.
In my fifty years as living as a Christian, I have never seen the soul's thirst for God more talked about, more recognized as a vital motivation in the human personality or more strongly experienced as a consuming passion. Perhaps a revolution is under way, a revolution of the Spirit that is about to shift our core energies away from arranging life to make it as satisfying as possible to drawing near to God.
The spiritual climate is ripe, Jesus seekers across the world are being prepared to abandon the old way of the written code for the new way of the Spirit.
(I grieve in typing the above line.)
The following are quoted from page 6 in the book Sacred Companions:
Embracing Mystery. Protestants are often suspicious of mysticism. Sometimes associating with magic and occultism, they may assume that Christian mysticism is an oxymoron. This is a serious misunderstanding. The Christian mystics offer tremendously rich resources for those seeking to deepen their life with prayer and intimacy with God. That help is both most needed and yet most often resisted by those predisposed by background or personality to be overly intellectual in their life and faith...
