Twelve Step spirituality and unholy meditative practices (contemplative prayer) have greatly weakened the Body of Christ. One who has effectively promoted both is Catholic priest Richard Rohr, who could more accurately be described as an inter-spirituality/panentheist.
A leader in the field of contemplative spirituality, Rohr states, “The spirituality behind the Twelve Step program is a ‘low church’ approach to evangelization and healing that is probably our only hope in a pluralistic world of over seven billion people.” [1]
According to Rohr, “Bill Wilson and his AA movement have shown us that the real power is when we no longer seek, need, or abuse outer power because we have found our real power within. They rightly call it our ‘Higher Power.'”[2]
Our real power is not our power at all, but the power of Christ. The only people who have God in them are those who know Christ as Lord and Savior. (Romans 8:9) But Rohr loves the twelve step program because he knows anything and everything can be defined as “god,” and he knows AA’s 11th Step is fertile soil for contemplative prayer.
AA’s 11th Step states: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
“Meditation is something that can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height,” writes AA co-founder Bill Wilson. [3]
The silence of contemplative prayer has always been related to Alcoholics Anonymous…. click to continue reading
Endnotes:
1. Adapted from Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, pg. 315, Day 327
2. Ibid.
3. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 101
in his writings and conferences, gives the impression that Christ is not truly the divine Son of God, whose sufferings redeemed us from our sins, but rather just another guru, prophet, or great moral teacher, who like so many others before Him came to show us the path to self-enlightenment. Constantly quoting Buddha, Joseph Campbell, and Hindu aphorisms, Rohr’s syncretistic vision of Christ strips the Incarnate Son of God of His divinity and His uniqueness as mankind’s only Savior. – See more at:
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http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6819#sthash.wAiy9KZP.dpufin his writings and conferences, gives the impression that Christ is not truly the divine Son of God, whose sufferings redeemed us from our sins, but rather just another guru, prophet, or great moral teacher, who like so many others before Him came to show us the path to self-enlightenment. Constantly quoting Buddha, Joseph Campbell, and Hindu aphorisms, Rohr’s syncretistic vision of Christ strips the Incarnate Son of God of His divinity and His uniqueness as mankind’s only Savior. – See more at:
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6819#sthash.wAiy9KZP.dpufin his writings and conferences, gives the impression that Christ is not truly the divine Son of God, whose sufferings redeemed us from our sins, but rather just another guru, prophet, or great moral teacher, who like so many others before Him came to show us the path to self-enlightenment. Constantly quoting Buddha, Joseph Campbell, and Hindu aphorisms, Rohr’s syncretistic vision of Christ strips the Incarnate Son of God of His divinity and His uniqueness as mankind’s only Savior. – See more at:
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