EP. 66 - Centering Prayer or Spiritual Danger? Exposing the Deception of Ruth Haley Barton and Contemplative Mysticism

 🎧 On This Episode of Discerning the Drift 👀🔥📖✝️

Addie Miller continues her essential series exposing how contemplative spirituality and mysticism have seeped into the church under seemingly sound Christian teachings.

Addie critically examines Ruth Haley Barton’s influential book, Invitation to Silence and Solitude, and reveals how Barton’s practices—centering prayer, breath prayers, and emptying the mind—are rooted in New Age panentheism and Eastern mysticism. She highlights dangerous connections between Barton and other popular Christian figures like Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson, Priscilla Shirer, and Bill Hybels. This episode provides biblical discernment, clear warnings, and a firm reminder that Scripture alone—not mystical experiences—should guide our faith.

Dive deep into scripture with Addie as current events, teachings in the modern church, testimonies, trends, important biblical teachings, and the sweeping drift away from the basic truths in the Bible across the modern-day Church are all brought to light to be tested only against the infallible, un-changing, Word of God on Discerning the Drift.

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