Spiritual Classics Companion to Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible

Introducing the Reader to Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises

The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible suggests as a way to “Use this Bible for “Spiritual Formation” to read the Renovare Resource for Spiritual Renewal titled Spiritual Classics, which focuses on the disciplines listed in Celebration of Discipline from the perspective of classical devotional writers.” (p. 2325). On page 291 of Spiritual Classics begins a chapter by Ignatius Loyola on “Rules for Discernment of Spirits,” taken out of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises.  The introduction to this chapter reads:

“Ignatius Loyola is one of the most influential religious founders in Christian history. The religious order that he founded continues to have worldwide influence and is especially known for its work in education and spiritual formation.” –Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings for Individual and Groups on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines, ed. Richard J. Foster, and Emile Griffin. A Renovare Resource for Spiritual Renewal.

Foster thinks Loyola is the Very Best

Near the end of this chapter by Ignatius Loyola in Spiritual Classics Richard Foster, the founder of Renovare, and chief editor of the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, writes glowingly of Loyola: “Of all the literature on the discernment of spirits I think Ignatius of Loyola is the very best. He is so wise, so clear, and so direct…. Whatever and whenever Ignatius’s experiences we can be deeply grateful for the help these ‘rules for the discernment of spirits’ can give us as we seek to distinguish the movement of God upon the soul from that of Satan and his minions.” –Richard Foster, commenting on Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, Spiritual Classics, 298.

Thus, the head of the Renovare movement, which has succeeded in getting all the known Protestant denominations to adopt Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Directors, from Adventists to Mennonites, from Presbyterians to the Salvation Army, is a most enthusiastic advocate of Ignatius Loyola.

At the end of the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible is the Spiritual Formation Bibliography, which includes the entry:

“Loyola, Ignatius. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Edited by John F. Thornton. Translated by Louis J. Puhl. New York: Random House, Vintage, 2000.” P. 2322. 

Rome’s Plan: Run the “Separated Brethren” As Subsidiary Organizations

Let Protestants Keep Their Names and Organizations

Rome’s openly stated plan is to let all the Protestant denominations keep their names and their structures, and to run those structures as subsidiary organizations to Rome.

The Jesuit Rahner writes that it can be assumed that the Protestants ‘have lost their church-dividing character and can become a reconciled diversity…as a result of the insight that they are various forms of expression within a communality. They have lost their ‘anti’ character and gained a positive independence.” Karl Rahner, S.J. & Heinrich Fries, Unity of the Churches: An Actual Possibility. New York: Paulist Press, 1985, 108. [P. 43 on keeping structures; P. 59 on subsidiary.] 

In other words, you have, for example, the Presbyterian tradition and the Adventist tradition. Thus Adventism is viewed as just one form ‘of expression within a communality.” The Structure has lost its “anti” character. Therefore, the papal representative can receive a standing ovation at the General Conference session.

Congregations in Submission to Hierarchy; Hierarchy in Submission to Rome

To accomplish this objective it is necessary that all the respective congregations and laity be in absolute submission to their respective Protestant hierarchies, which in turn are in submission to Rome. To educate for deeper submission, teach and apply Spiritual Formation.  

Forming the Image of the Roman Hierarchy 

Renovare and Spiritual Directors International with their Spiritual Formation movement throughout all denominations and religions, has seized upon the thirst for spirituality as the avenue to integrate and infuse Roman formation throughout Christianity and the non-Christian religions, forming them all in the image of the Roman hierarchy.

Top Jesuit Rahner Spells It Out

In 1985, the top Jesuit of the Twentieth century, Karl, Rahner, authored a book with Roman Catholic theologian Heinrich Fries, in which he wrote:

“However, even if one recognizes a significant difference in parish life between Catholic and Protestant congregations, with respect to ecclesiastical leadership the average congregation in the Protestant churches in fact usually practices the kind of obedience to their church leaders that is customary in the Roman Catholic church. Therefore, one should not overestimate the danger of a rebellion ‘at the grass roots’ [CC note: read Independent Ministries] against their ecclesiastical leaders’ decisions regarding unification. On the basis of their theological expertise and their religious conscience, the representatives of this ecclesiastical leadership can decide in favor of church unity, and can also work with sufficient zeal among the church members to gain their understanding for this decision. As always the presupposition is, of course, that one’s conscience comprehends this unity as a truly binding commandment of Christ and that one is prepared to dare something, the good results of which cannot be foreseen with absolute certainty.” –Heinrich Fries and Karl Rahner, S.J., p. 54.

Therefore, in 1985 the top intellectual Jesuit in the world knew that the church laity of the Protestant churches was just as submissive to their hierarchies as were Roman Catholic laity to their hierarchy. All that remained was for the respective hierarchies to decide in favor of church unity, and work with sufficient zeal among the church members to gain their understanding and conscience for such a decision.

Fastening the Chains of Submission With Spiritual Formation, Guide With Spiritual Directors

To make absolutely certain that the respective hierarchical structures of the respective Protestant denominations remain in submission to their Roman Catholic superiors and that each level of their hierarchies is in submission to their superiors, spiritual formation and spiritual directors have been implemented across the board, from the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest “Protestant” denomination in the United States, to the Methodists, the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians, the Mennonites, and the Seventh-day Adventist Structure.

Thus to completely take over all of the Protestant denominations and accomplish the submission within the hierarchies, spiritual formation is implemented, the very spiritual formation used over 450 years in the Jesuit order to establish cadaver obedience of each Jesuit to his superior.

Stunning Fulfillment of Prophecy  

This implementation of spiritual formation and spiritual directors throughout Protestantism, including Seventh-day Adventism, is a most stunning fulfillment of the prophecy:

“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world [CC Note: She is gaining control of the world through control of America, particularly the Roman Catholic intelligence agencies and the neo-conservative vision of imperial pax Americana], to re-establish persecution [CC note: witness the revival of torture and secret detention camps run by the CIA around the world], and to undo all that Protestantism has done [CC note: Now particularly through Jesuit Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Directors].” GC 565, 566.  

Former President Jimmy Carter Reveals the Shocking Picture of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Substitution of Church Leaders for Christ

Jimmy Cater Warns Southern Baptists Have Substituted Church Leaders for Christ With a Ferocity That Exceeds Roman Catholicism

Former President Jimmy Carter has revealed his anguish at what is happening in his church, the Southern Baptist Convention. “A major and perhaps permanent schism occurred at the annual Southern Baptist Convention in 2000, when a new ‘Baptist Faith and Message’ statement was adopted. Of preeminent concern to many Baptists was the deletion of the previously stated premise that ‘the sole authority for faith and practice among Baptists is Jesus Christ, whose will is revealed in the Holy Scriptures.’ In effect, this change meant substitution of Southern Baptist leaders for Jesus as the interpreters of biblical Scripture. Although there were solemn pledges that acceptance of this new statement would be voluntary, it soon became obvious that it would be imposed as a mandatory creed on all convention officers, employees, deans and professors of colleges and seminaries, and even missionaries who were serving in foreign countries. The strictness of this mandatory compliance has exceeded that in the Roman Catholic Church or in other Protestant denominations.” Former President Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005, pp. 41, 42. (emphasis mine).

No Other Name

One of the most fundamental truths taught in the gospels is that salvation does not come through ecclesiastical hierarchies. Salvation comes through the person of Jesus Christ alone. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12.

When I read that verse as a teenager, sitting in a classroom, as I was reading my Bible to myself, I was stunned. It was a great heavenly light that burst upon my senses. It is the great truth that we need today, as all ecclesiastical structures are taken over by the Jesuits with Spiritual Directors and Spiritual Formation.

Supplementing the Authority of God With That of the Church

The Lord has warned us that the very first step in apostasy is to supplement the authority of the Church to the authority of the Word: “The very beginning of the great apostasy was in seeking to supplement the authority of God by that of the church. Rome began by enjoining what God had not forbidden, and she ended by forbidding what He had explicitly enjoined.” GC 289, 290.

Renovare’s Human, Mediated Side  

A supplement is something that is added. The great apostasy began by adding the authority of the Church to the authority of God. That is why the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible is a Bible leading the churches into deeper apostasy by saying that there must be human mediation: “there must be a human, or mediated, side to God’s relationship to us.” –Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, p. 4. This human, mediated side is viewed as variously the family, the nation, and the church, by this Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible. This bible is educating Protestantism to accept the human mediation of ecclesiastical structures in the image of the Roman hierarchy.

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