{"id":86,"date":"2013-07-20T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2017-01-27T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T18:14:37","slug":"assemblies-of-god-contemplative-spirituality-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Assemblies of God Contemplative Spirituality Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very disturbing but truthful news about the A\/G is that the leadership and the highest level have accepted and are promoting Contemplative Spirituality.   A\/Gs colleges and seminaries have produced a generation of ministers that agree with their new direction into Contemplative Spirituality.  As a result, many of the 40s something and younger group of ministers are very much into Rob Bell and the Emergent Church and support homosexuality. They were warned repeatedly over the past couple of decades.  Instead of taking the warnings, the Denomination leadership trumped up false charges against the ones who warned them and ruthlessly excommunicated them.  Anyone who resigns in protest will also be brought up on charges and not allowed to resign.  They will instead be dismissed.  One presbyter told a pastor friend that was being excommunicated after attempting to resign, \u201cYou don\u2019t quit them\u2026they quit you.\u201d  As a result, there are few voices left in the Denomination that are courageous enough to oppose this outrage.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m one of the few that managed to resign without enduring such injustice.  I feel deep sadness for my friends that remain in the A\/G.  They are very distressed about this paradigm shift and venture into the vortex of deception and apostasy.  This is beyond critical mass.  We have to face the fact that our world is changing and there may be no going back.  If this is not the last days, it is still going to be a time of darkness when \u201call that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived\u201d.  Guard your hearts and minds!  Plant your hope and faith firmly in Christ Jesus!  There is no middle ground.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very disturbing but truthful news about the A\/G is that the leadership and the highest level have accepted and are promoting Contemplative Spirituality. A\/Gs colleges and seminaries have produced a generation of ministers that agree with their new direction into Contemplative Spirituality. As a result, many of the 40s something and younger group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIm2N-1o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}