Today I would like to bring attention to Henri Nouwen, one of the more popular contemplative New Age mystics. He has been popularized by people such as Rick Warren in his book, The Purpose Driven Life and Francis Chan introducing his readers to Nouwen in, Crazy Love. (to site just 2 promoters, facilitators of Nouwen.)
In his book, In the Name of Jesus, Henri Nouwen said, “Through the discipline of contemplative prayer, Christian leaders have to listen to the voice of love…For Christian leadership to be truly fruitful in the future, a movement from the moral to the mystical is required.” (1989)
It’s obvious now that Christian leadership have taken Nouwen’s ‘exhortation’ and ran with it in the last few years. His intentions have been realized across Christendom. In this year of 2011, Nouwen is just another accepted household name. It’s known now that anyone can get away with throwing in someone like a Henri Nouwen alongside C.H. Spurgeon, or any other Reformed voice and get away with it. It’s called being a facilitator for the ‘New Spirituality’, this global transformation that we are now in, the one world religion, which is coming together faster than I can type this article. Are you a Christian or Christ-Follower? (See article about the difference in, How to “Discipline” Yourself Right into the Global One World Church. Keep Reading...
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