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Spiritual Directors’ Lens

“There is one God, and One Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
1 Timothy 2:5

The Jesuits, through Spiritual Directors, take over Protestantism, and are now guiding the minds, hearts, and spirits of Adventist Pastors, Professors, and Leaders…

Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible

Map of Regional Coordinators for Spiritual Directors
International

	--From the Spiritual Directors International Website

The Global Reach and Organization of Spiritual Directors

Spiritual Directors are Organized Globally as a Protestant Confessional / Intelligence Gathering System

The Protestant Reformation removed men from the absolute control of the papal authority and placed them in direct dependence upon Almighty God through secret prayer, the direct mediation of Christ the Mediator in justification, and dependence upon the Word of God by faith.

Jesuit Spiritual Formation, led by Spiritual Directors, the 450-year-old office of Jesuit Father Confessors in fastening the soul under the bondage of absolute obedience to the hierarchy, is the removal of man from direct dependence upon God, and opening of the hidden self to man, to the Spiritual Director, the new Father Confessor, who takes over the guidance of the soul in refastening the chains of absolute control by ecclesiastical hierarchies, which themselves, in turn, are under the control of Rome as subsidiary “Separated Brethren.”

Jesuit Spiritual Formation Incorporates the Bible Itself As A Primary Tool to Teach Jesuit Spiritual Formation

The massive ecumenical Jesuit Spiritual Formation movement, replete with Spiritual Directors in all the major churches, endorsed by Christianity Today, now has its very own Spiritual Formation Bible, the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, designed to lead the person into the Spiritual Exercises, Spiritual Formation, and dependence upon human hierarchy and institutions instead of Christ. Thus, the Jesuits seek to undo all that Protestantism has done with reference to the Bible.

This new Bible is classic doublespeak. While preparing to teach the “With-God Life,” it teaches that dependence upon human mediation is crucial because of the human condition (RSFB, p. 4).

Massive Invasion of Spiritual Formation Classes and Groups in the Structure

We address the issue of the emergence of this Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, because of the massive invasion of Spiritual Formation in the Structure of Adventism. Structure college after college, Structure university after university, from Andrews to PUC to Avondale, now have classes in Spiritual Formation. Structure churches, large and small around the world have Spiritual Formation Groups. When I went into a search engine of google looking for SDA Spiritual Formation, over 31,500 websites came up. (You must realize that Google calls up all websites with reference to any of the words entered.) However, within the first four or five pages of listings, scores of Structure Adventist schools and churches came up as teaching Spiritual Formation. It is only a matter of time before the inevitable happens, and the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible begins to be used by those who are so enthusiastic about Spiritual Formation.

Rome Uses the Renovare Infra church Movement to Extend Jesuit Control Over Protestantism

Renovare is Latin for Renewal. In Rome’s effort to completely undo the Protestant Reformation for Spiritual Exercises “became a guide for spiritual renewal in the Roman church during the entire Counter-Reformation and has been a primary influence in the spiritual life of the church ever since, particularly through the efforts of Ignatius’ followers in the Society of Jesus. It remains a powerful influence and is the basis for much of the contemporary retreat movement.”  -W.W. Meissner, S.J., MD., Ignatius of Loyola: The psychology of a Saint, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, p. 87. (emphasis ours

For decades since the 1960s, Renewal has been a major term in Jesuitism and Roman Catholicism. What has happened now is that Rome has used Quakerism and the highly endorsed Renovare Spiritual Formation movement as the vehicle to introduce Ignatius Loyola’s Jesuit Spiritual Formation throughout Protestantism.

“The Catholic Church is ‘a lamb in adversity, a fox in equality, and a tiger when in ascendancy.’… “No right-minded Protestant could place his trust in the promises of the Vatican. A Church for all seasons; “Semper Eadem,” but adaptable, compliant and blending into her surrounds, she adopts the cause that will win her ascendancy. These are her politics and her diplomacy and this is her ecumenism.’ (Catholic Research Information Bureau, 1987).” –End times Ministry, Mini-Despatch, Sept. 1, 1999

Clever as a fox, Rome loves to use other unsuspected agencies, to accomplish her purpose. For many decades, she used the Shriner Freemasons, for instance, in setting up her machinery for ultimate persecution in the United States. The Franciscans in the 1970s promoted the Charismatic Renewal movement throughout Protestantism. And now, through the Quaker leader, Richard Foster, and his 25-year promotion of Spiritual Formation, Protestantism, even to Adventism and the Mennonites, has opened its arms wide and enthusiastically embraced Jesuit Spiritual Formation.  Richard J. Foster is the Editor of the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible.

Before we look at the details of what has happened, however, we must first look at Protestant spirituality, which is what Rome is seeking to extinguish.

Protestant Spirituality: The Protestant Understanding of Salvation

“The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17

Taught Directly By God

The Protestant way of salvation is the way of the individual being taught directly by god Himself. Moses Prayed, “I beseech Thee, shew me Thy glory.” Exodus 33:18 In response, God brought Moses into His personal presence.

“And the Lord said, Behold there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

“And it shall be, when My glory passes by, that I will place you in a hole, a cavern, a bored out place of the rock, and I will cover and protect, the palm of My hand over you, until My passing.

“And I will take away the palm of My hand, and you will see My back parts, but My face you will not see.” Exodus 33: 21-23. (From the Hebrew showing the semantic range of key words).

The Intimate Communion With God That Moses Had Is Our Privilege to En

God designs for us to have the same kind of intimate communion with Him that Moses had:

“This experience, above all else the assurance that God would hear his prayer and that the divine presence would attend him, was of more value to Moses as a leader than the learning of Egypt or all his attainments in military science. No earthly power or skill or learning can supply the place of God’s immediate presence. In the history of Moses we may see what intimate communion with God it is man’s privilege to enjoy.” 4T 53

The battle cry of Protestantism in the Sixteenth Century was sola scripture, sola fide, sola gratia, sola Christos-Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone. With this triumphant message, Protestantism vanquished the death grip of Roman hierarchy upon the soul and the Christian world. Notice how the word alone appears again and again.

They Shall Be All Taught of God

The New Covenant promise is they shall all be taught of God. No less a Personage than Jesus Christ, Himself, God in human flesh, declared, “No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw Him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me.” John 6: 44, 45.

Christ in the Old Testament declares: “And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord. ”Isaiah 54:13. “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in the hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people.

“And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I shall remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:33.

“For thus says Yahweh to the House of Israel: Seek Me, and live. And do not seek Bethel, and Gilgal do not enter, and Beersheba, do not pass over. For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will be nothingness…[Seek Him], the One making the Pleiades and Orion.” Amos 5: 4, 5, 8. Any place that is in apostasy can be plugged in to Bethel, Gilgal and Beersheba, which were centers of apostasy in Amos’ day. God wants us to seek Him directly and be controlled by Him directly.

Taught By Christ Himself

The teaching by Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One, God manifest in human flesh, Emmanuel, God With Us, of you, the individual, is what discipleship means. A disciple learns of his Master. The disciples in Jesus’ day desired to stay with their Master, and learn everything that they could from Him by being with Him, by listening to his teaching, by obeying Him, by walking with Him by the way, by following Him as their Example, by surrendering to Him as their Lord, Savior, and King.

Discipleship Means Following and Forsaking All Else for Christ

“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed Me, in the regeneration when the son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

“But many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” Matthew 19: 28,29.

There were many in Jesus’ day that felt they were going to heaven because they were Abraham’s seed. Because they obeyed the hierarchical structure, they felt that they were in solid for salvation. Jesus completely overturned this idea. Submission to ecclesiastical hierarchy does not grant salvation. Only those who followed Him completely, forsaking all else and all others-houses, family, and lands, for His sake, would inherit everlasting life. That is complete and total discipleship.

Agonize to Enter Through the Strait Gate

Only those who enter through the strait gate of absolute self-surrender will be saved. “Then said one to Him, Lord, are there few that be saved. And He said unto them.

“Strive [agonize, from the Greek agonidzesthe, to contend, to engage in an athletic contest, to fight, to struggle, to strive] to enter in at the strait gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

“When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying Lord, Lord, open unto us; and He shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

“Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in Thy presence, and Thou hast taught in our street

“But He shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are: depart from Me, all workers of iniquity.” Luke 13: 23-27.

Not Enough To Be Around Christ

It is not enough to be around where teaching about Christ is going on. It is not even enough to be in the presence of men who are imbued with the Holy Ghost, even men whose voice is delivering the voice of the Spirit of Christ Himself. To be saved a person must agonize and actually enter through the strait gate of self-surrender to Christ, so that the will is surrendered to Christ’s will, the heart is surrendered to Christ’s heart.

Structures Are Now Moving To Take Over the Individual Work of the Soul

Because the spiritual condition of church members is so abominable in Protestantism, due to the application of the Hegelian dialectic, church leaders have been convinced that the answer lies in implementing Jesuit Spiritual Formation, and have Spiritual Directors from the hierarchy form the spiritual life of the ministry, the teachers, the administrators, the pastors, the evangelists, the congregations, and students in training. Thus, the Structure takes over the work that Christ alone is to do for the soul.

The work of evangelism, Jesus said would involve going and making disciples of all nations. It is individual soul work.

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